Constitutional Law for Dummies
Your Humble Servant, Catesby Esq, has been clearing out the attic (I'm building a Priest's Hole on the offchance that British Airways launch a successful coup d'etat) and I came across some old exam papers. There's a perpetual debate about whether exam standards have fallen or risen so I thought I'd reproduce the questions and you can form your own views.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, MULTIPLE CHOICE PAPER
Consider the following extract from a piece of legislation, the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925:
1(1) If any person accepts or obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain from any person, for himself or for any other person, or for any purpose, any gift, money or valuable consideration as an inducement or reward for procuring or assisting or endeavouring to procure the grant of a dignity or title of honour to any person, or otherwise in connection with such a grant, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
Question 1. Who would be caught by this provision?
(A) An insignificant school teacher from Essex whom nobody's ever heard of
(B) A fund-raiser who likes to swan around the Middle East pretending to be Lawrence of Arabia
(C) A rent-seeking parasite sponging off the taxpayer in the guise of a "special adviser"
(D) A Cabinet Minister
(E) All of the above
(A) An insignificant school teacher from Essex whom nobody's ever heard of
(B) A fund-raiser who likes to swan around the Middle East pretending to be Lawrence of Arabia
(C) A rent-seeking parasite sponging off the taxpayer in the guise of a "special adviser"
(D) A Cabinet Minister
(E) All of the above
Question 2. You are a Cabinet Minister with responsibility for Party matters and your salary is paid by your Party out of donations. You have signed forms nominating a financial supporter for a peerage. What line do you think the Crown Prosecution Service will find convincing enough not to prosecute you:
(A) We have to put this all behind us and move to a period of renewal.
(B) I'm not very clever and I always sign anything put in front of me.
(C) I'm not very tall and I'm easily intimidated by attractive intelligent women dangling bunches of grapes in front of me.
(D) I was ill in hospital at the time and everyone knows that I held a spurious non-job with no real authority.
(E) I'm willing to shop the Prime Minister before he drops me in it.
(A) We have to put this all behind us and move to a period of renewal.
(B) I'm not very clever and I always sign anything put in front of me.
(C) I'm not very tall and I'm easily intimidated by attractive intelligent women dangling bunches of grapes in front of me.
(D) I was ill in hospital at the time and everyone knows that I held a spurious non-job with no real authority.
(E) I'm willing to shop the Prime Minister before he drops me in it.
Question 3. You are a senior Cabinet Minister - I mean, really senior - and you're in the throes of a party donation scandal. Who comes to mind as a useful scapegoat to take the heat off yourself?
(A) An insignificant school teacher from Essex whom nobody's ever heard of
(B) A fund-raiser who likes to swan around the Middle East pretending to be Lawrence of Arabia (but who might remember something damaging about you)
(C) A rent-seeking parasite sponging off the taxpayer in the guise of a "special adviser" (but who certainly knows something damaging about you)
(D) Another Cabinet Minister (who almost certainly doesn't know anything at all, but will be believed if he makes up something)
(E) Any of the above
Question 4. You are still - just about - a really very senior Cabinet Minister in the throes of a Party donations scandal. How big a pay rise do you think the Crown Prosecution Service need to reflect their new responsibilities under your latest crackdown on crime?
(A) 10%
(B) 20%
(C) 30%
(D) 100%
(E) 100% plus a peerage for any outside QC called in to advise on particularly sensitive prosecutions.
How difficult are these questions, really?
Catesby, Esq.
21 comments:
jesus wept, talk about flogging a point....
Flogging a peerage might be more to the point george.
So in the crucial last week of Sir Hayden Phillip's review of state funding following all these donations scandals, Guido and Father Tim at C[amer]onHome both ran ad campaigns that urged people to contact Sir Hayden to SUPPORT more state funding.
The following week when the review was closed, and comment now meaningless, they both wrote anti-state funding articles.
Funny that. Now that's a scandal, imho. State funding blood on their hands.
Who'd have thought it, the second Guido actually helping to prop up the Westminster elite?
Fucking hell Catesby you certainly have a different work ethic to that lazy Irish fucker , postings galore and most more than 50 words long, you must be a protestant?
Chad,
Yes and don't forget the money Guido took off the commies at War on Want, the environmentalists at Friends of the Earth, the headbangers at the Bruges group etc. Proof that he is a commie green Thatcherite with red green blue cash in his hand...
Chad, do you understand that Guido doesn't, (well not unless it is a very special occasion) wear M&S ladies lingerie despite accepting their advertising?
Doh!
Just how much cash is this git getting from this blog?
methinks I should look into it , no doubt there is room for a blog filled with venom ,bile and hatred that isnt called conservative home.
But does he have a rampant rabbit ( and not a broom-handle, like Chad) plugging his main-drain?
OK Guido, thanks for clarifying.
You'll advertise anything for the cash even if that means helping to win more state funding for the westminster elite.
Guido Mark I will be very disappointed!
'Funny that. Now that's a scandal, imho'
surely Chad,you meant IMNSHO-
I can barely keep up with the posts since The Great Catesby took over. He bangs on a bit, doesn't he?
Perhaps Guido hasn't departed Stateside yet and is backseat driving this blog. He is certainly labouring under the misapprehension that we wish to know about his intimate wardrobe choices.
Nice one Catesby - good post. Just remember that Guido sometimes has to write slowly because he knows that some of his regular visitors cannot read fast. That's the internet for you...
surely Chad,you meant IMNSHO-
LoL. I'm not going to apologise for highlighting those like Guido who have been helping the pro-state funding cause.
Of course it's fine that Guido's blog is about building traffic to earn cash not conscience, but I do wish he'd then avoid all that crap about "contact me..you didn't come into politics for this.. etc" when he's just as much on the make as they are.
Chad
I think you will find that Mr fawkes is very open about his quest for cash , he is in this for fun and money , not to save the world.
You pompous twat!
chad,noone comes here to deabte the great philosophical questions of the day or really cares what guidos stance on anything is
questiosn like how big are jenny tonges tits and whether Zanu Lab got bunged for peerages are more the order of the day.
by the way I hope you're not that chad bloke from con home-who nearly put me off voting for UKIP.if you are please shut the fuck up and go back to your roots.
"I'm easily intimidated by attractive intelligent women dangling bunches of grapes in front of me."
Ah, if it was "I easily intimidate non-attractive non-intelligent women by dangling my bunch of grapes in front of them.", then we might know which Cabinet Minister you're talking about.
Priti Patel can dangle her ripe mangoes in front of my face next time Im in hospital (I fall over a lot)
Then we can talk about hanging and flogging criminals and how much of a 22 ct cock David Cameron is.
Right wing decent looking and probably knocks up a mean curry.
Does it get any better?
Shit this blog has moved up an intellectual gear or two since that lay-about Fawkes fucked off to Big Apple. Mr Catesby you are defnitley going to attract a better class of blogger with this material. Toss us fuckwits a few tits and bums now and again to keep the readership numbers up. Any nice photos of that Asian Babe Priti Patel?
Yours etc
Dr Crackers Phd
Don't know any of the answers, but I come from a disadvantaged background, my mum and dad suffered from relative poverty quite badly, and I can spell my own name, do I get a pass? and how's Birmingham these days, Catesby?
by the way I hope you're not that chad bloke from con home-who nearly put me off voting for UKIP.if you are please shut the fuck up and go back to your roots.
I am. I See you're the same cunt you always have been RM.
Are her mangoes as ripe as Konnie Huq's?
We should be told
Chad and others.
The free market promotes anything that makes money. Which is why it also promotes freedom of all political idears however crazy. Like even socialism if it pays its invoices.
(Reference: George Soras Richard Branson etc.)
However socialism can not and therefore in the end WILL NOT promote anything but state controll.
For example listen to commercial radio stations like Talk Sport and especialy New Labour supporting Richard Bransons Capital radio. About 50% of their advertisements are now selling government, not private sector products and services.
The content and the very exsistence of this state and party political propergander, commercial radio stations are contracted not to comment on in any way whatsoever if they want the states/your stolen, cash to keep flooding in.
Private money has tremendous power. However it does not make the LAW and does not start or payrole wars or governmental failure and incompetence, for long.
(Reference: Small and medium sized largly Jewish owned companies that refused to give the German goverment any more credit during WW1. A lesson not wasted 21 years later.)
GOVERNMENT ITSELF funded by the tax payer DOES and a socialist one, National Socialist or otherwise, will and idead in the end has too payrole wars increased controlls and civil unrest.
Which is why when a socialist government gets its "hands" directly on big business and the state and commercial media in particular all our personal and political freedoms are in deep deep shit. What a wonderfully graphic example of this seeming paradox, 2006 Neo Labour Britain is.
(Reference: Adolf Hitler Gordon Brown Saddam Husain Tony Blair Pol-Pot Nick Griffin Joe Stalin and many other dictatorial authoritarian socialists of our worlds recent past.)
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