[quote tatutata]@GreenlandTheMovie I grew up in Germany. I am struggling also to get my head around the complacency. We had this stuff drummed into us all the way through school, we were given copies of the constitution and had whole terms devoted to the separation of powers. Germany has also enacted plenty of covid legislation, but nearly all of it under state law, because the government does not have the constitutional power to do so. I have written to my MP to point out that at no point has Germany suspended the right to protest. We have. That single fact is the one i find by far the most worrying. I also think its mainly a function of a weak government, not some grand plan, but that's almost worse.[/quote]
Yes, Britain is definately the outlier here.
I do think this country has gone a bit crazy. Its what happens when the mildly incompetent get power. They are so afraid of their incompetence being uncovered that they go slightly mad, wielding power heavy-handedly.
I am so fed up of being "told" that various unelected experts are brilliant and cannot be challenged. Locking down everything and everyone diesnt require sone siecial skill. What would be skillful would be treading a path between lockdiwns and keeping society and the economy open.
Of course we should have a single document written modern constitution. No one even knows what the constitution is exactly in Britain at any given time, hence the Miller cases on Brexit. What's really scary is that in Scotland, some of the unwritten checks and balances that form part of the British constitution aren't part of the devolution settlement and the Scottish government in all their talk about indeoendence, make no reference to a Scottish constitution or joining the ECHR.