The Queen and democracy

David Laws, lest we forget, fiddled £40,000 from the taxpayer which he paid to his homosexual lover presenting it as rent for a room in his house. Laws resigned, but apparently will get a senior government post soon. Just the sort of chap we want running the country.


Anyway, Laws has used his six months off to write a memoir of the events surrounding the formation of the coalition between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. In it he is reported to have said that The Queen connived with Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg at keeping Gordon Brown in office while they stitched a deal together.

And stitched is the appropriate word. The electorate was stitched up, as the two men decided on policies which were not present in their manifestos, without deigning to consult the voters. Her Majesty appears to have been fully informed as to what was going on, favouring undemocratic rule by the political class above the traditional system of the people deciding how they are governed.

There is something quite, quite rotten here. Buckingham Palace has some explaining to do.