Gordon Brown's plans

So what's Bogey the Fungusman got planned for us? The BBC has the lowdown:

[H]e said he wanted to strengthen Britain's constitution and give more power to MPs.

More power?! This is madness! Power needs to be taken away from politicians and given back to individuals. 

"One of my first acts as prime minister would be to restore power to Parliament in order to build the trust of the British people in our democracy. Government must be more open and more accountable to Parliament - for example in decisions about peace and war, in public appointments and in a new ministerial code of conduct."

So instead of the Prime Minister handing out sinecures and positions on quangos to party loyalists, he tells the lobby fodder in Parliament who he wants to appoint, and they rubber stamp it.

Great. 

Mr Brown also suggested Britain could get its first written constitution, saying: "we need a constitution that is clear about the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen in Britain today."

You would have thought that he'd have noticed a few other things wrong with the country? Might it have crossed his mind that these should get priority? Perhaps it has, but focusing on the constitution just looks like an admission that he doesn't know how to fix any of them. His ideological foundations in socialism has failed. He's tried throwing money at problems and this has failed too. He is completely clueless about what else might work.

And I hate to think what a constitution written by Brown might look like. Fairness and equality blah; multi- this, poly- that and post-endogenous- the other. It's hard to see him as Thomas Jefferson isn't it?