We need a clarified UK Constitution

A nation’s Constitution sits above partisan politics. It contains the (hopefully agreed) rules of the ‘game’. The point of it is to balance the freedom and safety of its citizens, and remove justification for political violence.

Each country needs a national constitution that protects a) democracy, so one side can’t monopolise forever, and b) you, when the other side is in power.

This constitution outlives us and our egos.

Because so many laws and delegated powers have grown up since the 90s that have shifted power away from the voters, I sense the UK needs the populous (a large enough body that is representative of the British and Northern Irish people and therefore vastly outnumbers the extremists of left and right) to re-clarify our Constitution.

Think through then…what should it therefore contain, and what’s your own role in maintaining this ethos culturally over centuries, beyond the flimsy initial paper it is written on?

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