Brown's Green Paper

Much excitement at Ministry Towers over Brown’s Green Paper on constitutional reform entitled, “The Governance of Britain” with sub-headings of , “Limiting the powers of the executive” and “Making the Executive more Accountable”.

It’s opening gambit clearly states Brown is seeking to, “re-new trust in our democratic institutions”, at least that’s grudgingly admitting there’s a trust problem, though “re-newing” implies there was something there in the first place.

Rather than drag you through the nuts and bolts, suffice to say the real rub’s in the small print. Little concrete action and nothing that actually limits the powers of the executive, makes them more accountable.

They do say it’s only, “the first step in a national conversation” and though we applaud the intention, it feels like we already had the conversation but no-one was listening.

Still, if Brown’s saying he’s ready to listen, it’d be a start if he accepted our interview request - this business of finding an MP to support legislation that would solve the “trust” problem overnight isn’t easy.

A Hiatus

Apologies for the severe lack of posting recently.

We’re still here, but not alone. Broadcasters have taken an interest in our adventures. We’ll see how this pans out. Talk is cheap - money pay da rent.

Meantime, in pursuit of just the one MP who’ll support and introduce the Misrepresentation of the People’s Act, we’ve been battling our way through the occupants of Portcullis House and the Palace of Westminster.

We’re even on nodding terms with security.

This won’t last long.



We have much to tell, and promise to get back to posting more regularly as soon as time permits.

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