Spin in haste, repent at leisure. It was clear that Brown's proposal for a new quango limiting parliamentary sovereignty would run into trouble. Thank god for Malcolm Jack, Clerk of the House of Commons, to point out the crappy consequences of further constitutional vandalism. The destruction of parliamentary privilege and curbing of free speech would achieve by default what monarchs were unable to. Was this what the executive hoped to slide in under the guise of reform?
We know that New Labour slime are devious enough to attempt the opposite of what the public demand. Under the camouflage of accountability and transparency, they would neuter the Commons for good and instill executive advantage in perpetuity. What care they for free speech or independent scrutiny.
Here's hoping that further voices raised will halt ill-thought reforms designed to bolster Brown's poll ratings: the very short-term consequences that have disfigured Boards up and down the land.