In a fortnight’s time Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton, is introducing a Ten Minute Rule Bill to make the criminal justice system more accountable, and he has announced that he plans to bring in several more. So what is a Ten Minute Rule Bill? Well, they tend NOT to be an earnest effort […]
In the latest copy of Hansard, several more written questions have been inadequately answered. There will be times when the Government really can’t answer a question, or when it would be undiplomatic for it to do so, or when pulling the information together would be excessively costly. But those occasions are comparatively rare. This post […]
Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton and co-founder of Direct Democracy, laments how voters don’t have real control over politicians and politicians don’t have real control over the real power-brokers – senior civil servants. Another year, another Queen’s Speech. Yet more headline grabbing laws churned out by our politicians. Parliament produces a torrent of […]
Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton, reviews the week that was in the House of Commons chamber. The mood on the Conservative benches this week was good. We have a common purpose about us – matched only by the visible despondency opposite. Take Europe, for example. Once a topic that caused bitter division, Monday’s […]
Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton, reviews the week that was in the House of Commons chamber. And so it goes on. Another week of Parliamentary pretence; Ministers pretend to be making the big decisions and we MPs pretend to hold them to account. Tuesday’s performance of the European Scrutiny Committee demonstrated this rather […]
Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton, reviews the week that was in the House of Commons chamber. Only Cherie Blair could have enjoyed last week’s Prime Minister Question Time more. It is rare to see someone come apart in a debate, but Gordon Brown did. Years of scheming and plotting against Tony Blair – […]
Douglas Carswell MP is co-founder of the Direct Democracy group. He recently returned from a visit to Afghanistan. Des Browne’s departure from the Ministry of Defence, when it eventually happens, will do little to solve its underlying failures. Regardless of which Minister happens to be serving as the department’s mouthpiece, the MoD is institutionally incompetent. […]
Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich & Clacton and a CentreRight contributor, explains why sharia cannot be implemented into UK law to any degree. Unlike Rowan Williams, Sayed Qutb – the intellectual architect of political Islamism – was never noted for his nuance. Qutb’s 1964 manifesto, Milestones, is to the point; sharia – the law of […]