There is a word that describes a government that publishes a law with 22 minutes notice

Posted on September 14 2020

This tweet was published at 11.38 pm last night:

The law it referred to came into effect 22 minutes later.

There is a name for the sort of government that publishes a law with 22 minutes notice.

Failed, is, of course, one of them.

But another word beginning with F is better.

And there's no k in it, just for the record.

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  1. Ralph Cunningham says:
    September 14 2020 at 9:18 am

    As a comparison, Richard, the National Security Law was published here in Hong Kong at 11pm on June 30 and came into effect immediately. First time the public had seen so much as one word of it. So the Johnson government can be considered to be only 22 minutes better than Communist China in its lawmaking.

  2. Pilgrim Slight Return says:
    September 14 2020 at 9:27 am

    Ooooooohhhhhhh now let em see…………………………

    Fascist!?

  3. Ken Mathieson says:
    September 14 2020 at 11:54 am

    There’s another word for it – perfidy and that’s what this post by Craig Murray sets out here:

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/johnson-intended-to-break-the-withdrawal-agreement-even-before-he-signed-it/

    As Murray points out, the media seem to have entirely missed this. Are they being “encouraged” not to go there? After all, this is a government which has regularly demonstrated that it is entirely without scruples. In any normal democracy, they’d have been removed from office by now, and we appear dependent on the Tory Party or the unelected Lords staging a rebellion to rescue what remains of their and the nation’s reputation.

  4. Pilgrim Slight Return says:
    September 15 2020 at 9:20 am

    What I find chilling about this is that up to now, it is working people who have had their lives destroyed by such an insouciant disregard for good human relations based on law , ethics and contractual obligations.

    So now it looks as though this approach is to be used in international relations and on democracy itself.

    Proof if it were ever needed, that the Conservative Party is in the thrall of libertarian extremists – people who want more, even though many of them already have everything.

    And that ‘more’ comes at the expense of everything and everyone else.