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I'm a classic over-thinker. Always ...Adam here.<br />I'm a classic over-thinker. Always looking for reason when often there is none. It's inconceivable to me that Corbyn could be so blind to the error he was making, but alas, I think you are right. Prone to Politicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06996718995765704900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-46710118426950253082020-10-26T09:27:56.533+00:002020-10-26T09:27:56.533+00:00Well, Adam. It's back to history and the origi...Well, Adam. It's back to history and the origins of wars. Every statesman who has lost a war they started did so convinced of their ultimate victory. If people think they're going to win, they will find a reason why, whether it's Swinson thinking that Brexit would give her an historic breakthrough, or Corbyn's faith that the late surge of 2017 would be repeated. They think so despite the evidence.It's mad, but hubris does strange things. Never expect logic.<br /><br />The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-42266637409976809502020-10-11T00:49:20.904+01:002020-10-11T00:49:20.904+01:00Hi Peter. I’m Adam, the author of the first commen...Hi Peter. I’m Adam, the author of the first comment. <br />I was not aware of that. I cannot understand why Corbyn instructed Labour MPs to vote for the bill, when they had the numbers to defeat it by voting against. I know you are right, but I’m just confused as to why Corbyn suddenly thought that he could win the election. Corbyn had not supported having a general election when the government tried twice to get the necessary support of 2/3 of MPs under the FTPA in September. He obviously did so because he was not confident of winning a general election. So what made him change his mind one month later? <br /><br />Yep, totally agree about the need to prevent constitutional impropriety. The Early Parliamentary General Election Bill is a classic example of Parliament abusing its sovereignty. For me it’s a depressing reminder that there are no constitutional safeguards in our political system. Our constitution is whatever a majority in Parliament deems it to be. <br /><br />I’ll admit that I did not actually consider the glaringly obvious reality that Corbyn is a eurosceptic. I think I just tried to convince myself that he was pro-EU, when it’s all to clear looking back now that he was nothing of the sort. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-5458550669514993212020-10-09T07:55:48.924+01:002020-10-09T07:55:48.924+01:00Not really, Anonymous. I don't say that the us...Not really, Anonymous. I don't say that the use of referendums means that a country is not a parliamentary democracy, rather that they fit badly with any parliamentary democracy. <br /><br />You say they exist, but don't discuss whether they ought to exist. You can defend their use, certainly. Especially if they are carefully and properly designed. But I will always have reservations as they undermine representative democracy. My argument is that they are based on a fiction of the rational and informed voter, which leaves our very irrational and ill-informed electorates open to manipulation by the unscrupulous. It's why referendums are the historic tool of choice for legitimating dictatorships (though they can go wrong beautifully, as in Chile). They are a poor method of decision making, divisive, and can disintegrate into tribal antagonisms. They produce a festival of dishonesty and deception rather than deliberation. May the best marketing win.<br /><br />This is why representation is important. Our problem is that we do it badly. It's undermined by electoral and party systems that neutralise parliamentary power. We need better forms of representation and participation to augment parliaments.This is why deliberative democracy is important. Ireland does give us a good example, this time to improve the process of the constitutional referendum to legalise abortion. It used a citizens' jury to help frame the process and make recommendations to the electorate. Deliberative democracy provides a structure for wider participation, aims at people making informed decisions and reaching consensus after a longer period of discussion. It enhances representation, rather than undermines it.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-17891974198249035582020-10-08T20:41:18.530+01:002020-10-08T20:41:18.530+01:00"Referendums have no place in a parliamentary..."Referendums have no place in a parliamentary democracy": Oh really? Apart from anything else, you're implying that Australia, the Republic of Ireland, Canada and several other countries are not really parliamentary democracies. You might want to rethink your position, or at least that particular statement. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-32864946845804391272020-10-07T10:11:42.947+01:002020-10-07T10:11:42.947+01:00Hi. Good to hear from you and thanks for the kind ...Hi. Good to hear from you and thanks for the kind words.<br /><br />The suggestion that Labour couldn't have prevented the 2019 election because of the LibDems and the SNP supporting one is the latest line being spun by the left as an excuse for a catastrophic misjudgement. I have had it repeated to me several times. It's obviously a 'line' being pushed by the left. It's also not true. Johnson did not have the numbers. The vote was 438 for, 20 against, and 181 abstain. 130 Labour MPs voted for. Take their vote away and the vote for the bill got 308 votes - not a majority of the Commons. If those 130 had voted against then the combined total of opponents and abstentions was 331. It could easily have been defeated as many abstainers would have voted against instead, and, if it had been, the Speaker would not have allowed it to be reintroduced. Labour's support was decisive. And it was Corbyn's decision.<br /><br />(Let alone, as leader of the opposition, he had a duty to oppose constitutional impropriety regardless of the consequences. Also, whether he was seen as avoiding an election or not would have made no difference - the election was lost, there was no chance of a Labour victory at all.)<br /><br />Agreed on Brexit, but the thing to realise is that Corbyn was a leaver and had been all his life. He was an adherent of the Bennite line from the early 80s. He voted with the Tory Eurosceptic right against the party whip on every occasion that there was a vote on the EU. He called for moving article 50 the day after the referendum and his performance during the referendum campaign was awful. Brexit would never have happened with a committed and capable pro-EU leader of the Labour Party. It's a national tragedy.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-3568866356240915662020-10-06T20:02:35.453+01:002020-10-06T20:02:35.453+01:00Hi Peter. One of your fellow students here. Always...Hi Peter. One of your fellow students here. Always been a big fan of your blog, but just never commented before. <br />One thing I'm always curious about is your condemnation of Corbyn agreeing to the 2019 general election. In truth, he was compelled to. The Conservatives already had the necessary support of the Lib Dems and the SNP for the introduction of new legislation which would circumvent the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act with a simple majority. At this point, a general election was going to happen whether Corbyn agreed to it or not. Therefore he had to move quickly to supporting a general election, to make it look like he was being dragged into one.<br /><br />However, I still hold Corbyn highly responsible for his mishandling of Brexit. My main issue with him is his arrogance that prevented him from supporting anyone other than himself as a caretaker PM, when it was immediately clear that too many other MPs could not stomach seeing him as Prime Minister. Had he agreed to throw his weight behind someone else, a unity government could have held for long enough to pass the necessary legislation for a second referendum. As it were, his stubbornness ruled out the possibility. This meant that the SNP and the Lib Dems eventually decided that the temptation of electoral gains was too strong to resist, and they signalled to the Tories that they would give them their required simple majority for a general election. And of course, our chance of remaining in the EU was doomed forevermore, because FPTP so cruelly ignored the fact that a majority voted for a second referendum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-65431075180201086742020-08-08T13:41:53.581+01:002020-08-08T13:41:53.581+01:00Sometimes I get a comment on here that blows me aw...Sometimes I get a comment on here that blows me away. This is one of them. Lovely to hear from you Peter. Even more lovely to hear of your amazing progress. I am absolutely delighted for you. And when someone crops up like this, it reminds me of the privilege it was to do my job and to spend my Wednesday afternoons in the BJL talking with some of the wonderful people who came to classes. To be remembered like this, all those years later, is a thrill. You've made my day.<br /><br />All the very best<br /><br />PeterThe Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.com