Britain Polls, Brown Sinks

Ted Bromund / June 05, 2009

LONDON – Britain is going to the polls today in a double-barreled election: for local councils, and to send representatives to the European Parliament.

It’s hard to take either of these organizations very seriously: local councils may be responsible for delivering services, but since they raise so little of their own money, voters can’t reward them for doing more with less. And the European Parliament is the least democratic part of an undemocratic system: since it can’t do much more than scrutinize proposals submitted by the European Commission, it’s little more than a talking shop, and — as a long-running expenses scandal has yet again revealed, a tiresomely corrupt one as well.

But it’s scandal that’s turned these elections into a make-or-break moment for Prime Minister (more…)