Good ideas but once in power?

It is an easy thing to say when you are not in office and I agree with many of the sentiments of David Cameron's constitutional ideas in the Guardian this morning.

However how easy would it be for a new Prime Minister to take office and set in motion measures to effectively diminish his powers.

Cameron's piece contains measures that those who believe that our constitutional system is flawed will welcome.

I believe the central objective of the new politics we need should be a massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power: from the state to citizens; from the government to parliament; from Whitehall to communities; from the EU to Britain; from judges to the people; from bureaucracy to democracy. Through decentralisation, transparency and accountability we must take power from the elite and hand it to the man and woman in the street.

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His main thrust being the move from executive to Parliamentary power which swung radically the other way first under Mrs Thatcher and then under Tony Blair.

His choice of medium is interesting.The Guardian has been running a new politics for the last week or so opening a discussion on a new constitution and it is the chattering political classes that Cameron will need to win over.

Hats off for taking the initiative.Tony Blair tried to do the same in 1997 but quickly New Labour's constitutional reforms were lost in the mists of bureaucratic wranglings.

As I started the article,I shall finish it.Good ideas but once in power?