Sentences with phrase «british democratic traditions»

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17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

The Social Democratic Federation was a founding participant, and the tradition has since passed through the Independent Labour Party, the British Socialist Party, Cripps, Laski, Bevan and Benn, right through to current iterations such as Labour Briefing and the Labour Representation Committee.

They are firmly in the tradition of British policing - in which local forces are answerable to local people through democratic controls.