{"id":1792,"date":"2003-11-17T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2003-11-17T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T20:27:00","slug":"bush-running-scared-of-uk-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/11\/17\/16\/27\/bush-running-scared-of-uk-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Running Scared Of UK Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read that despite overwhelming security measures (more armed troops on London’s streets than at any time since World War 2<\/a>) and a cordon sanitaire<\/i> around his august person, King Bush is afraid of a very specific collection of agitators and is doing all he can to avoid having to encounter any of these disgraceful dissenters. These are, of course, Britain’s elected Members of Parliament. Afraid of being soundly heckled (as he was in the Australian Parliament<\/a>), Bush has refused to address Britain’s Commons<\/a>, or even the supine higher assembly, the House of Lords. What, exactly, is the point of a “State Visit” without an address to a country’s elected assembly? Blair and Bush are sending a clear signal that as far as they are concerned, the real<\/b> centre of power in Britain definitely does not reside within the Commons. In the bad old pre-democratic centuries, it was okay to visit the PM, have tea with the Monarch, and maybe make a quick procession down the Embankment, so now I see where Bush’s policy of social regressivism is leading us…<\/p>\n

GEORGE Bush was last night branded chicken for scrapping his speech to Parliament because he feared being heckled by anti-war MPs. The US president planned to give a joint address to the Commons and Lords during his state visit to Britain. But senior White House adviser Dr Harlan Ullman said: “They would have loved to do it because it would have been a great photo-opportunity. “But they were fearful it would to turn into a spectacle with Labour backbenchers walking out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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