According to the Daily Telegraph, the government has now delayed for three months publication of its bill to abolish the Lord Chancellor and the Law Lords and introduce a supreme court. What a surprise. After all, it takes a wee while to work out all those irritating little details if you take a sledgehammer to a centuries-old constitution with absolutely no idea of what you are doing beyond a desire to wreck all that is ancient and integral to the country's political, legal and cultural fabric simply because it is ancient and integral.

It was this Lord Chancellor, after all, who gaily announced that he had abolished himself, only to discover that the constitution didn't allow him to do so. With this kind of learning curve, three months would seem to be a touch on the optimistic side. They'd be better off locking this proposal in a bottom drawer and then losing the key.

Posted by melanie at January 6, 2004