A return to a medieval form of government

 Hi All, 

Any student of British Government and Politics will tell you that in Britain's uncodified constitution, the executive is embodied in the Cabinet .The Cabinet is made up of the 22 most senior Secretaries of State, who come from the political party which commands a majority in the elected House of Commons, although in the past 300 years they could have been blue blooded nobles, i.e.  Dukes, Marquesses and Barons, today they are mostly commoners and MPs. The Prime Minister is merely the first among equals when it comes to big decisions. 

 The Cabinet itself is formally a Committee of the Privy Council- the Council that advised the Monarchy when England was an absolute Monarchy. The politicians would vie for power among themselves and their King or Queen. Pillow and personal talk was important. Hence being a 'groom' to the King was an important role . If you were grand keeper of the King's loo role, you were as important as a Lord Chancellor because you had the ability to speak to the King. And the office of loo role holder was often held by a noble and not a serf.  Likewise if you were a lady in waiting to the King's wife,  that would give you access to the King via the Queen who could have a lot of informal influence upon the king. Hence the power behind the throne and the machinations of medieval Monarchy. 

Now let's go and see what's happened this weekend, which would have given Henry VIII a run for his money. The media screamed that the government was 'in crisis' . And yet unlike in the recent past, it was not Government Ministers i.e. members of the Cabinet that were being sacked or who were openly briefing against one another. It was unelected advisers on one side. And on the other the Prime Ministers unelected girlfriend (not even spouse). So rather than any of this being held to public scrutiny, the way a Cabinet Minister is, we have like a Medieval Monarch's Court bedchamber fractions and machinations , the old theory of Cabinet government, replaced not with unelected advisers. But with the PM's girlfriend and her girlfriends and court fraction. You couldn't make this up. We're back in the days of Monarchy and court intrigue. And no-one elected any of them.