http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change-committee/

And also the report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtclimate/170/170i.pdf

Already the British Constitution is remaining deeply unprepared for and blind to the long-established and daily-worsening Threat to both Renewable and Non-renewable Lifesupports and Resources of this Earth, and therein of the British Isles;

already neither European nor British Legislation is adequately addressing those same long-term Human-Civilisational Threats to the Earth; nor are the British Parliaments and Colleges-of-Expertise tackling the medium and short -term manifestations of the known List of Threats to Life-on-Earth and thereby to Great Britain;

already all Political Parties, Religious Persuasions, and Educational Curricula have blindly entrenched themselves in Self-Centred Hedonisms and Short-term stop-gaps and band-aids.
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Soils, Air, Waters, Biomes, and hundreds of Habitats continue to be degraded, eroded, ‘clapped-out’ of precious nutrients,
extincted of precious lifeforms, by the thousand every year.

What better good can a ‘fixed-five-year-term’ hope to accomplish in these not only ultimate but increasingly pressing priority and urgency Future Needs, Hows, and Affordable-Costs, of the Human-Race on Earth ?
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You, in the two Parliament Houses, have to radically-reform whole Constitutions, as well as extending Legislation on scales of 10,000 and 1,000 years, instead of continuing Politics and Citizenship as bedfellow-bunfights occurring entertainingly for five-years at a time.

Since The People are all Powerless in all of the above Matters, this is the best message we can send to you Lords up there:

You, yes You, have to make the essential and increasingly ‘emergency’ radical-reform improvements to both the Constitution and the Stream of Legislations that alone can sustain all future generations as well as the present hugely-over-greedy ones.

A ‘guaranteed’ five-year seat will only be a further corruption into even deeper complacency as the Longterm Civilisational Extinction Market-Economics and Five-Year Politics takes a tighter grip to both Silence and Sacrifice both People and Lifesupports.

Parliamentarians will be on holiday.
We the People never can be.

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(JSDM1340F30July2010)

I’m so pleased you found my image of the Buxton Memorial useful for “Lords of the Blog” (a friend has just pointed it out to me). Thank you for crediting me. If it is at all possible now, could you please also credit/link to our website? The URL for the image is http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/teulon/4.html, but http://www.victorianweb.org would be fine.

We are a very large scholarly resource now archived by the Library of Congress. Although the webmaster is a Prof. at Brown University, I am in Surrey (living very near Buxton’s old estate! That is at
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/buxton/1.html).

Best wishes.
Jacqueline Banerjee
Associate Editor, http://www.victorianweb.org

I hope you find our webste useful again!

but not to cast a dark shadow over the Supreme court of California, and to cast light on that of Kentucky.

Don’t the individual states have a supreme court as well in the USA? That would be the comparison with California and NY/state.

We have, especially lately, seen a decline in bloggers. My concern is that we will lose this line of communication through what may be seen as hostile posts. It is of the utmost importance that this line of communication is kept open. It is important the noble members blogs do not just become trivial merely to save argument. I can understand that continuing disagreement is not very pleasant but it is not personal.

There are always two sides and I strongly believe that both learn from this blog even though they may appear at odds at times. To come here and post as a member of the House must seem like being the PM at question time, the vultures waiting to attack. I hope the noble members keep coming back voluntarily, I won`t say I will make life easy but at times I will learn and agree.

The noble members have no need to come here or listen to our argument, they do and it is appreciated, greatly by myself. I hope they will keep coming, I feel the benefit for all is worth it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

BDS is aware of this but perhaps it slipped her mind?

The UK Supreme Court is an Appellant Court or the court of last resort in the appeals process. However, it is not the highest court in the land as that role belongs to Parliament. It can raise Acts of Attainder against individuals or groups in the national interest. A leading banker was recently threatened obliquely by this class of Act so angry was the government at the time.

How can we have a beacon of justice called a ‘Supreme Court’ when Parliament can punish without trial anybody it sees fit? To mention the US Supreme Court in the same breath is to cast a dark shadow over it.

Parliament’s tyrannical hand has been strengthened by removing its Law Lords. Where will the judges come from when Parliament impeaches someone? Or has impeachment been removed as a statute; did nobody consider this?

Where was Privy Council advice on the use of the Royal Prerogative when a Prime Minster persuaded his house to vote in judgement on a former British Mandate? This deed was an ‘Act of Attainder’ in all but name, a punishment without trial. No light here but darkness.

Ref: External Links: British Tradition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

I disagree that these Judges don’t know the about the techical details of their judgements. They have to because their task is to monitor the application of the law and on this they are expert (Lord Blagger)

All this was done when the Country was deep in debt and the Government knew so. Now I know from previous posts of yours you do not believe that people should be allowed to walk away from their debts. The same applies to Nations, lest the system we run turns to anarchy.

If you were deep in debt would you allow your wife to commission a designer carpet for your home ? Knowing that your children would suffer to pay the debt and the cost of the carpet ? To me such would be irresponsible.

The debt this Country is in means that real people will suffer, they will hurt and go without. To you this may not mean much, I have seen single parents begging to borrow money to put some electric on their card (for which in most cases they pay more for), for food or their childrens school uniform.

The VAT rise that is coming will affect the poor a great deal more than the rich and yet we know the rich had a great deal more from the system before these cuts.

My perspective is that people matter more than art, to some that may seem alien, to me it is a way of life.

The little people in this country, the poor, will never benefit from the art and carpet yet do pay toward it. They will also pay a price for our great debt, higher than those who do benefit from it. If you can justify that in your own conscience that`s fine, I can`t and I would rather lose face, and perhaps friends here than let them suffer without a word.

The art and carpet is worthless without being able to educate a child to appreciate it or keeping someone alive to see it. Am I wrong to put people first ?