- It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did
Indictments in all but 11 of 162,000 cases.
- Black women and girls killed by law endorcement
A long list, but certainly incomplete.
- The nightmare isn’t what happens when you go to sleep
It’s what happens when you wake up.
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The democratic tincture acquired by the PM’s being elected by his constituents as an MP and by his party as leader (of course no one votes for a PM as such) is pretty darn tenuous as a conduit through which to justify the democratic standing of an entire legislative chamber. I wonder whether there was ever a voter whose choice was swayed by the consideration of the PM’s likely consequent appointments to the Lords? Possibly when Tony Benn (I think?) suggested appointing 10,000 lords to vote for their own dissolution – probably not since.
Of course, I agree that the other matters you mention are scandalous, but their scandalousness is camouflaged by the larger scandal, to my mind.