http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333561/John-Major-believes-Coalition-run-past-2015-poll.html?ITO=1490
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/jan/22/frank-field-mandelson-clarke-cable
http://www.1party4all.co.uk/Home/Account/TopicForm.aspx?topicsId=107
has a draft constitution for the incipient one-party state that should be the logical conclusion of these ideas.
It is tiresome how easily frightened so many British politicians are by these ideas. Those who are frightened are reminded that Ancient Athens and Republican Rome from which the West draws its democratic traditions were in fact one-party states with shifting factions. A party is administratively necessary to attract members, field candidates, change rules, count votes etc.
It will not result in a totalitarian dictatorship if its constitution protects the rights of its members (the most important of which is free speech) against the leader and his cronies.
China will show us the way. Whatever you think of its human rights records, the average Chinese Communist Party member has more rights against his party than the average MP against his. Check out their Article 4.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/25/content_6944738_1.htm
Also note that the Chinese Communist Party periodically revises its constitution to reflect changes in reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
Can we have a sensible discussion about this, please?
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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