Month: November 2011

The blindness to democratic principles that is widespread in Britain has been highlighted in a Financial Times report on the City of London and the “occupy London” protesters. A Maurice Glasman told the newspaper the banks that are among the businesses that appoint voters in City of London elections are an “unaccountable elite”. But Glasman,…

State Church Backs Occupy Protesters Opposes People’s Rights, Defends Privileges The Church of England has told a parliamentary committee that draft legislation to reform the House of Lords by allowing the people to elect most if not all of the legislators in that chamber is “highly questionable”. The state church says that to allow the…

The son of Britain’s hereditary head of state is able to veto some proposed legislation, according to an extraordinary report in the Guardian. It had been believed that Britain’s feudal system required the consent of his mother for new laws to be enacted but that this was a mere formality. Mr. Windsor was reported by…