Your daily constitutional

It has been said that what the UK needs is a codified constitution, like the US has, where all the checks and balances and limits are in one place, rather than as it is with the constitution being defined over hundreds of years and thousands of acts of law, written on vellum scrolls.

It is just two weeks since Donald Judas Trump took office for the second time, and depsite having a codiefied constitution stating clearly what can and cannot be done, he is driving a coach and horses through the very thig he swore to uphold.

Four years ago, the constitution and legal framework that underpinned it, just about held and there was a transfer of power. Trump's legal challenges all failed as his legal teams could not state soething in a court of law that was untrue, lest they be debarred.

I'm talking to you, Rudy.

Since then, many checks and balances have been removed at State level, and in the Supreme Court, while the legal process to convict Trump stared to late and ran out of time.

In fact, the political process should have been enough. Had the GOP followed conventions and impeached Trump. But after Trump incited a riot that was going to lynch the vice-Presdent, the GOP cosed ranks and followed the felon.

In short, a constitution is only as strong as the mechinisms that ensure it is followed, and with judges wavering in enforcing the very laws Trump is breaking, the consitition becomes less meaningful.

THe UK's is not perfect, but under attack by Johnson in trying to force his Brexit deal through, the constitution survived, and in the end breaking conventions of the House of Commons, he resigned rather than face the consequences of his actions and lies.