In what must be the most stupid idea yet to come from a 'serious' politicial thinktank, Compass are proposing that there be a 'Jury' to police other bodies from MPs to Banks to the press 'in the public interest' - see here.
Notwithstanding that the Citizens' Jury has echoes of some of the worst excesses of the French Revolution, what on earth do these people think Parliament is for? The fact they believe that many of our MPs are not working adequately, does not mean that these MPs are not part of the Council of the Country; effectively a representative jury elected for the purpose. Why on earth do they believe that an appointed body of 1,000 would be or do any better? At least Parliament is democratic - and that is, to quote another, 'the least worst system of Govenment'.
Of course, what this elite really wants is a body that they dominate - to remove and reduce the opposition to their statist and interevenionist instincts. There does not appear to be, in my view, some individual and single cosy elite; rather there are numerous cosy elites that have different and differing agendas, perspectives and motives. The fact that this idea has surfaced, as opposed to being squashed as being the anti-democratic nonsense that it truly is, is indicative of the fact that this elite is rather small, self-satisfied and too cosy by half!
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"some wonderful polemic nonsense" ...? Says Evan!
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