Dismantling ‘Westminsterism’ can help us move forward
Westminsterism might be a good way of describing many of the current complaints lodged at the door of government(s). An inability to see beyond ‘officialese’ thinking dogs the ruling body – and its ancillary bodies. Ministers, who are content to take office and pursue their career, fall back on blank thinking when it comes to facing up to their departmental mistakes.
Contaminated blood is the latest example, with a call for the fall of the former government minister who oversaw what seems, at a distance, to
