And......... I am going to come back to this discussion on NHS. I think this is significant what is going on in the UK. I mean, there are plenty of idiots in each country and somehow it seems its their time across the world.
nevilleturel wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:46 pm
The UK is one of three countries in the world with an uncodified constitution, alongside Israel and New Zealand. So the concept of the "unconstitutionality" of a law does not exist in UK law.
The UK has the concept of "parliamentary sovereignty", which had at least some role to play in the Brexit debate (the arguments being about whether the EU Treaties limited the powers of Parliament and whether they should)
@secret.simon Thanks.... your comments have been the most informative. it seems that there is a little draconian cousin within a family that is democratic in the UK system. At least from the surface that's how it seems if the parliament law cannot be questioned.
So far every single argument and justification that I have come across for NHS surcharge (for the working population of immigrants) are all flawed and lack logic. I mean the inherent nature of taxation does not allow what is happing in the UK. These are just emotional responses to a problem that has long been neglected by incompetent policymakers on the false grounds of universal morality. (I can explain this statement but not now, seriously)
And when people start pointing fingers at other problems and other country issues in response to their own is a clear indicator of a very week conviction.
@JB007 please don't even get me started.
But this is very interesting. there is a lot of symbolism in the reaction of 'British' people in the UK, and the UK social fabric is naked in front of me. The naivety of people is also visible. I never imagined that the UK will evolve like this. Chomsky is right, some of his theories are coming true in US, UK and even in India. This is part of the cyclic change.