Europe by Alastair https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb Information about the current situation en-us 2019-03-23 15:21:26 UTC 2026-02-25 16:59:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Vernon Bogdanor alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/344464930 Writing about the unwritten constitution

The Human Rights Act was introduced in 1998; a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly were established following referenda held with a majority voting in favour; most hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords in 1999; the Greater London Authority and the position of Mayor of London were established in 2000; and the Freedom of Information Act was passed later in the same year, with its provisions coming into effect over the following decade. ]]> 2019-03-23 15:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/344464930 David Runciman alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/344465788 From the London Review of Books at the end of last year.]]> 2019-03-23 15:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/344465788 Euromyths alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/344470822 2019-03-23 16:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/344470822 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/345259975 2019-03-26 13:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/345259975 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346227966 2019-03-28 16:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346227966 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346743521 Conservative MP invokes the second war and calls Germans arrogant]]> 2019-03-30 05:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346743521 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346743919 Vernon Bogdanor a professor on constitution affairs
-government and MPs  constrained to do something they don't want to do.
- people become a third chamber
- national sovereignty a tradable asset (NATO)
- parliamentary sovereignty either exists in absolute terms or doesn't
     -take back control
     - pre 1972 Unwritten constitution said 'Whatever the Queen and Parliament enacts is law' no point in having written constitution.
- British courts (acting on behalf of the EU) were considered a higher power than parliament
-Thatcher wrote in 1975 that she people didn't put enough thought into the ramifications of the European Courts power over the UK parliament.
- people generally not aware
-European convention of human rights is different to European charter of fundamental rights came in with Lisbon treaty. Courts could strike down UK law
- he continually uses the 1st conditional if... we leave
- devolution in '98. Some things retained by Westminster. In theory agriculture devolved. In practice European union over saw it. Those are being retained by Westminster.

]]> 2019-03-30 05:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346743919 Enoch Powell urged people to vote for Labour, who were promising a referendum on Common Market membership in 1974 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346786158 2019-03-30 15:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346786158 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346789674 2019-03-30 15:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346789674 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346789834 These are the notes for a previous seminar at the British Council]]> 2019-03-30 15:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346789834 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346791530 2019-03-30 16:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/346791530 Guardian article about Boris Johnson's influence alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358554659 2019-05-09 16:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358554659 In the talk wanted to mention Emily Thornbury - a Labour MP- sounding tired and defensive. Here is the link. alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358667640 2019-05-09 20:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358667640 Jonathan Powell in the New Statesman- talking about Northern Ireland and the constitution alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358679401 2019-05-09 21:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358679401 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358682643 2019-05-09 21:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358682643 Article about how the Irish prepared for negotiations well ahead of the British alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358747883 2019-05-10 04:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358747883 Jacob Rees-Mogg alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752035 2011]]> 2019-05-10 05:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752035 alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752212 2018]]> 2019-05-10 05:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752212 Chuka Umunna alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752398 2016]]> 2019-05-10 05:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752398 Chuka Umunna alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752566 2019]]> 2019-05-10 05:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358752566 These are the notes I sort of followed alastaircowan58 https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358773243 2019-05-10 07:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alastaircowan58/bogolggg2avb/wish/358773243