Not To Be President Blair After All Nov 2, 2009
Not a job, in other words, for a politician like Tony Blair, also no friend of Cabinet government. No, this is a job for a politician like John Major or Gordon Brown. (The American Conservative)
Top Article: When The Centre Does Not Hold Aug 26, 2009
Cabinet government produces policy drift and incoherence; a presidential government, proponents believe, would help to restore order to a troubled country, and accelerate the pace of the country's development ... A decisive and politically skilled head of government has less checks on authority in a parliamentary than a presidential system: think of Indira Gandhi in India or Tony Blair in the UK. Cabinet governments are also more likely to have legislative majorities to implement policy... (India Times, India)
UK vetoes Iraq minutes release Feb 25, 2009
Releasing the papers would do "serious damage" to Cabinet government, he said, and outweighed public interest needs ... But he said it was "necessary" in the interest of protecting the confidentiality of ministerial discussions which underpinned Cabinet government and collective responsibility. (BBC News -- Africa)
Britain's cabinet debate on Iraq kept under wraps Feb 25, 2009
JACK STRAW: To permit the commissioner's and the tribunal's view of the public interest to prevail would in my judgement risk serious damage to cabinet government, an essential principle of British parliamentary democracy ... TONY WRIGHT: What people will conclude of course, having served the veto in this case, not that an imperative need to maintain the integrity of cabinet government, which there is, but that in this particular case, there is something to hide. (ABC Online)
