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No, Barry! I don't twist and turn the Constitution, and it seems that Peter's link confirms the authority of Parliament, in particular that of the House of Commons.
The context of this discussion about the British Constitution on this thread is in relation to your ideas that Britain can simply get involved in a military fashion in another country, under the guise that it is 'in our interests'.
Many long wars have broken out after it was claimed that an initial battle or march-through, would resolve everything. Often, it has led to a war of prolongued agony, much harder to end than it was to start. This has happened all over the world, and also at the start of both World Wars.
I trust in the Government to apply common sense in considering the issue of Libya, perhaps even offering mediation, helping refugees fleeing from Libya and arriving in Tunisia to return to their home-countries, and inviting the waring sides to use restraint and to respect civilian lives, and not to commit atrocities on prisoners either, and to consider an end to hostilities and an atempt at dialogue.
This is what the basics of my participatiuon in this thread are about, that we do not need another war, and that yor views on marching into Libya, or sending arms to Libya, are your own personal ideas and do not come from the British laws.
Incidentally, you may find, by reading on the subject, that Libian rebels have a massive arsenal of arms, including war-planes. And that the Libyan pilotes apparently refused to deploy their war-planes against rebels within urban areas so as not to cause casualties among the civilians.
The Arab League is also closely following events, and is consulting with the African league (forgot the exact name, for which I appologise), and NO-ONE there is asking for Britain to go on a military campaign in Libya. I believe that even the rebels in Libya have not asked for British military involvement either.
The security of our Country and the wider security of other regions depends on law and common sense being applied, and on international collaboration. Whenever some-one brandiishes military intervention in other countries' strife, should reckon with the fact that many people are prepared to stand up and oppose this by invoking the Constitution.
I believe that many British mothers have lost a son in Afghanistan, and that our Country is getting mightily fed-up with this sacrificing our young generation in the cause of some so-called 'interests' of Britain in Afghanistan. The problem is, the Government knows it is so much harder to pull out of Afghanistan than it was to enter! The same applies for America: it's hard to pull out, much harder than it was to enter Afghanistan.
These ideas on sending British military forces into other countries' problems are more and more likely to be opposed as soon as they crop up, before they take shape and before it is too late!