The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

 Damian Green arrest: Cabinet in secret meeting over raid on Tory – Telegraph.

The current Labour government seems to have no concept of the constitutional principle of the separation of powers.

Parliament, as the legislature is there (to the extent it has not delegated the power to unelected EU bodies) to make our laws. The judiciary is there to interpret them. The executive is there to set policy for and manage government departments within the limitations of those laws and the constitution. Yet most Labour ministers seem make no such distinction. Most can't even distinguish between their Party and governmental roles – as any mapping of government expenditure against Labour constituencies will show.

In the most extreme example of this administration, the Prime Minister and H0me Secretary authorised the police to kill in circumstances where the officers (as even their compliant poodle of a superior officer feared) may have had no legal defence. No-one in power felt any need to go to Parliament (which could have added an additional defence to the law of murder, if requested). They must have been very confident indeed that prosecutors would accept political direction if the need arose. So much for the "operational independence" of the Crown Prosecution Service.

There was no operational independence in case of Operation Kratos.There was no operational independence when the BAe corruption prosecution
was halted on the Prime Minister's orders to avoid upsetting Saudi
tyrants. It seems the Speaker's operational independence is also now in some doubt. The Speaker should be the personification of the independence of the House of Commons, but Martin is a Party grunt on the make and has done his great office little credit. It should surprise no-one that he surrendered the keys of Parliament to the police for perceived party advantage. It should surprise no-one that he is ready to submit to Party coaching about his statement to the Commons in the wake of his error

The New Labour Project has, by means of party discipline, abusive whips and the hand-selection of compliant lame-brains as parliamentary candidates, subverted our Parliamentary system so badly, that it now forgets even to comply with the empty forms that remain.