Comments by "TorianTammas" (@TorianTammas) on "Does Britain need a written constitution after Brexit?" video.

Brexit is a waste of time and money resulting in the destructing of jobs, tax revenue and the loss of some companies who downsize or leave the UK altogether. The losses are estimated to be 100 billion pound a year.
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Gabriel - Some people are used to pumping water in a sinking ship. This does not mean it works it just means that people are used to live in a mess. The UK unwritten constitution is totally broken but people do not know what it would mean to live with a working one as they always lived with a broken one.
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@gabrielortiz6691 As I said sitting in a leakung boat become normal and one gets all proud when a large wave did not sink the boat. The UK system is confrontational and aims to eliminate the other side. Not to mention the games where one side tries to oumtaneuver the other in a legalistic way. They behave like children trying to win a game with all means possible. So in any situation when cooperation is needed they are basically screwed. The 3 and a half year no decision shows that the UK system just does not work.
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@gabrielortiz6691 It is a constitutional problem to regulate and give a clear path so that a democratic majority can legislate. What we see here are kind of card tricks and blinders which a minority uses to get their way.
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John Ertel - The only reason there was a non binding referendum was that a Tory PM wanted to silence Tory who hates the EU and to kill of the UKIP party. The Tory PM had never any intent to give the people any power nor leave the EU. He used the people to get rid of his enemies. It did not work as he planned. So the Tories will never ever give the people any form of real choice or power.
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Awesome Avenger - Not having a written constitution lead to a democratic crises.
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Mark Horton The UK had a referendum in 1975 with a more then 60% majority so you are mistaken.
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HomeShowTV This is why the US with its Presidential democracy has zombie presidents. A president can have lost house and senate and so nearly any power for legislation but still pretend to be zombie president.
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@HomeShowTV You know who brought in the fixed term parliament act? The Tories are partly responsible for it. So they get bitten by their own legislation. They constructed it that way just a few years ago. In regard to a lame president, I totally understand that the own system is seen as less dysfunctional as one is used to it and knows the loopholes.
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@HomeShowTV Yes you are right. The Tories never had a majority on Leaving Since 2016 or it would be done and dusted. ERG radicals with a fantasy invisible flying unicorn Brexit. The Tory radicals killed the Tory negotiated withdrawal agreement. So the Tories never had any majority for leaving as they are split.
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@HomeShowTV No one stops Johnson from stepping down as PM. This legislation bill has been kept secret for over a year. Johnson could have brought it in many month ago. He choose not to do either he is either incompetent, lazy or has no clue about the complexity of the bill as he never read it or did not u understand it. The withdrawal agreement Johnson "negotiated" is with a border in the Irish Sea. This was a May red line. So basically giving up positions makes treaties easy.
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@HomeShowTV It would be civic responsibilty for a lame duck PM to go, but the Tories did not have any majority on Brexit for 3 years. Right now we see a Johnson promised every Tory his personal Leaver unicorn in his special form. Soon this will blow in its face, but may be the MPs either don't read the bill or don't understand the consequences.
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steven rowe - Did anyone really think Tories would give the people actually power? Tories only allowed a non binding referendum this is as much as an opinion poll as it is legally without consequences. As Parliament is souvereign they can approve it or kill it with a vote.
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@Steven_Rowe The government has to have the votes to deliver. So when your own party stops your Brexit then you are a party of incompetents which are unfit to govern.
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@TheDotBot Dave Blair - The unwritten constitution is totally broken and unfit for purpose, but people are used in a boat with so many holes that have have constantly to pump water out of the British boat sinks. They are used to live in a sinking ship.
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@TheDotBot I am confident so many other countries could do it so can the UK.
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@TheDotBot The UK is a monarchical leftover. It pretends that 4 nations of unequal rights and unequal size belong somehow together. It totally ignores that Ireland left this unequal club with a war of independence and pretends unity where there is diversity. The only thing that nominally holds this together was the monarchy, but it is dysfunctional and unfit. Especially as still some kind of centralized Westminster rule hold these dominions as vassal with very limited rights.
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@TheDotBot I just make some observations that the fudging comes to another obstacle. As a stronger movement demands sovereignty for Scotland and this will be a challenge as the current state is as a more or less rightless vassal to Westminster. The claim of four nations or countries in the UK gets harder and harder to rationalize as the inequalities shows more and more. In the daily life it is more England or Westminster with vassals.
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@TheDotBot It has everything to do with a written constitution as in that the fudging would have to end and one defines the roles and rights of the different countries in that UK construct. Right now everything is in a float and nobody really knows or cares and one fudges along to survive another day.
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@TheDotBot So where does it state the roles point by point in writing?
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@pete7724 The gunpowder plot was about the restoration of a catholic king on the throne. Fawkes was one several who tried to blow up the House of Lords and the king.
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A Kelly it is the withdrawal agreement that has been always on the table but with a border in the Irish Sea instead of none as it was before.
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What is your assumption based on? Do you refer to a study or a gut feeling? If it is a study please share a link and sum up the main arguments. In all other cases thanks for sharing an emotional moment with us.
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@capitalmarketsandinternati1501 Thank you for your efforts. One source with a quote would have sufficed. I would be really curious about the main arguments. To narrow the view on one job like PM overlooks all the problems an unwritten constitution causes with the political system. It looks often more like an adventure then an ordered political process.
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@capitalmarketsandinternati1501 Good point not to mention that bin binding referendum is not more then an opinion poll. Surely some people whipped it up to enrage people with a pretended that it was more then that. Amazing how an internal Tory party divide can divide all the country. Before 2015 most people had the EU not on their horizon at all. It was the typical scapegoat when UK politicians screwed up or media needed some fantasy stories about the other.
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Carole Taylor - Oh the great conspiracy. No only incompetent Tories and since the court jester Johnson is PM they are even more incompetent then usual. The Tory extremists stopped Brexit in March by voting against the own Tory negotiated treaty. So much incompetence in one party in amazing.
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Sam Rowbotham - Scotland and Wales are vassals of Westminster. If they would be sovereign they could leave any day which they are not allowed to.
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@samrowbotham8914 What exactly is your claim based on? To consider a country as sovereign there are 8 criteria. Scotland (and England) fails to meet six of the eight criteria to be considered an independent country by lacking: sovereignty, autonomy on foreign and domestic trade, power over social engineering programs like education, control of all its transportation and public services, and recognition internationally as an independent country. While Scotland certainly has economic activity and an organized economy, it does not regulate its own foreign or domestic trade and instead defaults to decisions handed down by the United Kingdom's Parliament—which is elected by citizens from England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. National government departments such as the Department for Education and Skill maintain responsibility for social engineering, so England does not control its own programs in that department, nor does it control the national transportation system, despite having its own system of trains and buses. Although Scotland does have its own local law enforcement and fire protection provided by local governments, Parliament controls criminal and civil law, the prosecution system, the courts, and defense and national security across the United Kingdom—Scotland does not and cannot have its own army. For this reason, Scotland also lacks sovereignty because the United Kingdom has all of this power over the state. Finally, Scotland does not have external recognition as an independent country nor does it have its own embassies in other independent countries; as a result, there's no possible way England could become an independent member of the United Nations. Thus, Scotland—as well as England, Wales, and Northern Ireland —is not an independent country but instead an internal division of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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@samrowbotham8914 Sovereignty is an international legal term and only the UK is sovereign. England and Scotland are not this is very simple. One just looks on the list of the 193 souvereign countries and neither England nor Scotland made the list.
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@samrowbotham8914 You understand that to be a sovereign country one needs international recognition? You might recall the 8 points I mentioned before for recognition. What you are talking about are British definitions which work within British borders, but not on international level.
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@samrowbotham8914 I speak of England, Wales, Scottlan and Northern Ireland individually non of them are sovereign on its own. The only sovereign country is the UK.
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@samrowbotham8914 I speak of 2019 and England is a part of the sovereign country United Kingdom. As such England is in 2019 not a sovereign country in itself, but a dependent entity.
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@samrowbotham8914 Lets make it very simple for you. Can you obtain a British or an English Passport? The UK is a sovereign nation state. England is not it is as simple as that. England does not even have an one parliament. Weltmeister is the UK parliament.
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@samrowbotham8914 Once up in a time England was a sovereign country before it gave it up to become part of the the United Kingdom. It is the United Nation that has a seat in the United Nations. The passport is one from the United Kingdom, the parliament is the one of the United Kingdom.
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Tom Maj - The highest court made the decision and it is legal and can not be contested. So you have any opinion based on your gut feeling.
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Gross Herman - The UK had a civil war, a war of independence of Ireland from the UK and many other occasion where obviously it did not work.
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