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The Attorney General seems to have missed out on a few constitutional law lectures in his training. I can't see Dominic Grieve ever spouting this line. Funny that he was sacked (and denied the customary knighthood).

This is what Jack Cade meant when he said the first thing was to kill all the lawyers - he meant the abrogation of the rule of law.

The immediate problem is that we have a completely ineffective parliamentary opposition, so absorbed with its broader philosophy and so inexperienced (as the experienced MPs are sidelined) that it hasn't a clue how to go about questioning the government closely and effectively on its policies. The government as a result is doing what any government would be likely to do in the circumstances - get away with as much as possible before the opposition numpties work out what is going on and figure out how to challenge it - assuming they care, so absorbed they may be in their alternative philosophy vision (wreathed in smoke). Meanwhile, the numpties become fixed in the public mind as numpties, and when they do work out what they should be doing, no-one will take any notice.

This is a bad time for parliamentary democracy.

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