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Taking tea! Constitution 101 [3]

He knew he did not have a chance to negotiate any sort of coalition with the other fringe parties but she also knew that and hurried off to take tea with Her Majesty and ask that HM request that she form the next government of the once great coloniser. So the UK elections are over and done and once again an electorate has shown that they are not to be taken for granted, especially the younger voters.
One commentator remarked that the Labour leader was quite a campaigner, so even though you might not have agreed with his manifesto, he was likable, whilst the Conservative leader was a bit stiff.
Anyway it all comes down to the result at the close of the poll and that's that. Maybe another election in Britain within the next 12 months, poor people.

The Minister of Health has said ' there is no guilt, there is no process to be fixed.. all protocols were followed and he received the best treatment'.
A human being has died within the confines of one of the country's largest medical facilities, no one knows what he died from, he mysteriously disappeared for a 12 hour period and was then found lying on the hospital grounds at 5.40 in the morning. Not a single person, not a shift employee, no security guard, no one saw this human being but he suddenly appeared out of no where and died where he lay. The Minister himself says that no one knows what transpired during the missing 12 hour period.
Yet the Minister makes the claim as quoted above.
This is not about garbage collection, property tax, Tobago ferry service, no water and other mundane matters that no one in officialdom takes on, this is about a human being asking for help and then dying alone on the grounds of the same hospital that was supposed to help him.

The Constitution

On our continued journey for a good contract with the people and how we should and expect to be governed we look at the Right to Recall [RTR]. A rather frightening prospect for any elected individual. Imagine that persons who voted in an election could actually rescind that mandate if I screw up. Wow, that is scary. Well, it should be and you the elected one should realize that if you are not true to the oath of office then we the electorate have an option, so don't mess up. The conditions under which an elected representative can be recalled would not be simply, we do not like him therefore we want to initiate the recall. No, there will be a process. You may be looking at persons signing a petition, identifying the actual reason for the recall, the reason would have to be valid as established by predetermined criteria etc. Don't know if we remember the Member of Parliament who soon after being elected, accepted a job in another country and therefore was absent from his constituency for months at a time. He was a member of the ruling party who did not seem at all concerned with the absence. We are aware of all kinds of other issues, corruption, domestic violence, misbehavior in public office, nepotism, the list is long.
Canada, Switzerland, The USA, Taiwan are countries that have the RTR. Even if not used regularly it is a right for citizens to be able to deal with elected officials who have gone bad. If we have this in our Constitution we, the electorate, might all of a sudden be very busy.

I think the next big election will be held in Germany. Germany has a system of Proportional Representation, maybe that's why they are so successful, it sure is not because they have oil and gas.

Our Parliament just voted this afternoon, to outlaw child marriages, you mean there was actually a debate on that?

The weekend is here, don't forget love up the children, the spouse, have a family gathering!

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