General News Chat

[donsdaft]

And an unelected upper house in Parliament



Better off with a democratic Europe

[Red Zone]

Of course it can. We can get rid of Boris at the next general election which is coming soon. It is impossible to get rid of unelected judges.

No that's not right. They all have mandatory retirement dates when they turn 75 and given they are all old duffers by the time they are appointed they are all fairly well time restricted

[Jupiter]

No that's not right. They all have mandatory retirement dates when they turn 75 and given they are all old duffers by the time they are appointed they are all fairly well time restricted

It doesn't matter how time restricted they are, we can't kick them out.

[donsdaft]

Let’s all laugh at Boris
Let’s all laugh at Boris
Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha

[Red Zone]

It doesn't matter how time restricted they are, we can't kick them out.

So what's the alternative?

Don't have courts?

Only have elected judges - but then they just become politicians by another name?

As we have seen with this Tory mob (and remember I'm a Tory voter saying this) the last thing we need is a Government that decide to only follow laws that they like. You need the checks and balances that an independent judiciary provides surely?

[Red Zone]

Let’s all laugh at Boris
Let’s all laugh at Boris
Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha

The problem with that is he simply won't care

[mondo_notion]

On Boris, I was watching Last Week Tonight last week if you follow and John Oliver offered a theory that there was more to that clip of Boris explaining his hobby of making model busses in his spare time.

This is the clip in question...

Now when folk are googling Boris you see more of that than this...



Politics in the digital age indeed.

[Jupiter]

So what's the alternative?

Don't have courts?

Only have elected judges - but then they just become politicians by another name?

As we have seen with this Tory mob (and remember I'm a Tory voter saying this) the last thing we need is a Government that decide to only follow laws that they like. You need the checks and balances that an independent judiciary provides surely?

Get rid of the Supreme Court and go back to the old system of the house of Lords being the top court. It worked fine before Tony Blair f@cked it up.

[donsdaft]

Oh aye
The elected house of lords

[donsdaft]

The court of session is our top court
Then The European appeal court

F’uck the English

[krakowdon]

Get rid of the Supreme Court and go back to the old system of the house of Lords being the top court. It worked fine before Tony Blair f@cked it up.

The Supreme Court is in essence the HoL rebadged. The decision would have been the same today.

[donsdaft]

Right you bams.

Don't get involved with an election, a second referendum is what is necessary.


Michael Gove on the radio, what a creep.

[Donanddusted]

Michael Gove on the radio, what a creep.

I just don't understand how anyone can vote for him.

He is up there with the very worst of politicans.

[stewarty27]

Right you bams.

Don't get involved with an election, a second referendum is what is necessary.


Michael Gove on the radio, what a creep.

Did you have any contact with Gove when he was in Aberdeen DD ? I've some vague memories of him and an acquaintance of mine Frank Morgan in the Prince of Wales during the Journals Strike. And your right he is a creep. For the record Charlie Allan wasn't technically a scab. He just waited in the wings and took a sacked comrades job.

[Devanha Red]

Gove should have his Aberdonian citizenship taken away from him. Absolute shambles of a man.

Once got a pasting from the Aberdeen casuals and I think it maybe knocked his moral compass right off beam.