Movement or millimonument

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  • May 3, 2015 at 9:10 pm #83819
    jondwhite
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    Ed milliband reveals edstone or millimonument with his policies engraved in stone. Is it a good idea for us?

    May 4, 2015 at 3:22 am #110948
    alanjjohnstone
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    I thought our Declaration of Principles were already engraved in stone 

    May 4, 2015 at 6:36 am #110949
    ALB
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    Carving election promises is stone still won't make them realisable if they go against the economic logic of capitalism nor enforceable by the courts. As Gary Slapper reminded us in an article in The Times Law section (30 April)

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    After an election when all is said and done, it is usually clear that much more has been said than will be done. But there is no legal remedy against politicians who fail to keep their promises. In a House of Lords decision in 1983, Lord Diplock declared that elected representatives should not "treat themselves as irrevocably bound to carry out pre-announced policies contained in election manifestos". So someone selling a used car is under tighter control than someone selling the future.
    May 4, 2015 at 9:23 am #110950
    ALB
    Keymaster

    They look pretty breakable by capitalism to me.

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