UK Election 8th of June

[Aimless]

OK, name an example of a country where you could stop the government going nuts even if everyone was acting improperly.

Presumably he's referring to the ability of the judiciary to block unconstitutional laws even when the executive branch and the legislature have gone "nuts". Should be clear from context.

[Steely Glint]

Presumably he's referring to the ability of the judiciary to block unconstitutional laws even when the executive branch and the legislature have gone "nuts". Should be clear from context.

You can just change the constitution. And the highest judges in the land are all political appointees. And a judge is just as likely to be human garbage as a politician, just look at Jeff Sessions. Or they can be corrupted and/or threatened. A judge can quite literally say 'this is constitutional, actually' when it isn't, especially if the would-be dictator is clever enough to make their power grabs sufficiently ambiguous.

[Steely Glint]

Who's willing to take bets that this will hasten the UK's conversion into Orwell's Paradise?

And yet your grandiose CCTV did nothing.

Oh, and this is definitely an appropriate and normal response to a tragedy. So well done with that.

[Aimless]

You can just change the constitution. And the highest judges in the land are all political appointees. And a judge is just as likely to be human garbage as a politician, just look at Jeff Sessions. Or they can be corrupted and/or threatened. A judge can quite literally say 'this is constitutional, actually' when it isn't, especially if the would-be dictator is clever enough to make their power grabs sufficiently ambiguous.

I believe if you give yourself some time to think through this you'll realize that you're being somewhat misleading here.

[RandBlade]

You can just change the constitution. And the highest judges in the land are all political appointees. And a judge is just as likely to be human garbage as a politician, just look at Jeff Sessions. Or they can be corrupted and/or threatened. A judge can quite literally say 'this is constitutional, actually' when it isn't, especially if the would-be dictator is clever enough to make their power grabs sufficiently ambiguous.

Indeed, corrupt the judges and you can do anything. If your system is relying upon the integrity of the judges then your system is relying on people not acting improperly - which was an unacceptable requirement earlier.