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Re: [OT] Free CalTex Interplanetary Federation in the making

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:07:08 +0100
Subject: Re: [OT] Free CalTex Interplanetary Federation in the making

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:02:12PM +0100, Matt Tope wrote:
>At least with the old (1000yrs+) system dementia arising from
inbreeding
>kept the House of Lords from being of any kind of relevance (or threat)
to
>every day life in the UK.

It served the very useful role of stopping the government of the day (of
whatever flavour) from pushing through any legislation it felt like - or
at least trimming off the worst excesses of it. This government has
systematically disabled all such safeguards on its power.

R

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