Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
Authority here derives from the monarch, but is vested in others, and any attempt to exercise power against the will of the people would cause problems. It took us a couple of hundred years to get the balance right, and it's still changing. But over that entire period, the country remained governable and tolerably well-regulated. Is that so bad?
To paraphrase a fellow Englishman, Jimbocracy is the very worst system of government, apart from all the others.
I agree with this completely. I'd add that I think benevolent dictatorships generally work in inverse proportion to the amount the dictator has to intervene. So I'd rather we take any ex-cathedra intervention as an opportunity to find out how the community can handle things next time on its own.
William