Should Britain have a written constitution?

What issues? The US constitution has had little problems with the exception of guns and has been a great source of law in America.

Actually the Human Rights Act functions as a constitution in some sense and is working very well in defending privacy rights.

That's the point. Besides we don't have to make the stupid mistakes America did. I don't want the Tories writing it though, it needs to be something that protects humans rights not sells them to the highest bidder.

Outside of the EU yes we should.

Inside it there would be no point as there's the ECHR that would just overrule it making it a waste of time.

You do realise the ECHR is not an EU institution, right?

Yes but I'd guess we'd look to withdraw from both around the same time if we were to do so.

Do you mean withdraw from both, codify the constitution, but add some charter on civil rights to it, enforceable by courts capable of nullifying legislation that violates it?

Or codify the constitution as it stands, give judges the power to strike down law, but base civil rights on what is already in British law?

Or codify the constitution but keep judges as now i.e. not able to strike down law?

I'd withdraw from both and set up a UK Bill of Rights that takes a lot of the ECHR legislation but removes what we don't want and adds what we do want to best suit us.

Let me guess it'll all be about minority rights, equality, and basically anything to put white people down.We need a white constitution. 1. Whites should be given the right to self determination 2. Positive discrimination recognized as the racist double standard it is. 3. White majority & minority rights seeing as as minority rights only apply to coloured people.

Nay.

One look at the US and the SNP should tell us why a constitution is a bad thing.

It will be subtly political and hard to change. Plus to be honest, the status quo is fine.

I don't see why it would have to be hard to change. The Irish constitution has been amended more than 30 times in less than 80 years.

David Cameron wants a Bill of Rights, and it seems to be an idea gaining some mainstream support.

This might seem a bit of an academic question, but if we're not careful, it might cause a revolution (led by Russell Brand, of course).

There's going to be a debate in Westminster to mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

I'm a fan of it being unwritten and evolving. I find it surprising that Cameron wants a Bill of Rights when he's such a fan of Edmund Burke - the political writer who criticised the French Revolution and put the case for Britain's evolved unwritten constitution vs the written.