Ken on Feb 28th, 2007House of Lords Reform II
I said I was going to post on Jonathan Freedland article in the Guardian about the reform of the House of Lords, I do not intend to actually comment on Freedland`s article, except to say he is suggesting a fully elected house and use that as a springboard for my own thoughts. Although many belive [...]
Ken on Feb 28th, 2007House of Lords Reform
The Act of Union between England and Scotland was a Treaty and a Treaty that was ratified. Article 11 of the Treaty of Union 1707 embodies the substance of the Act of Settlement of 1701. If the Union is destroyed it affects all the Members of the Commonwealth. There would also be no British Government because there would be no United Kingdom of Great Britain left. All this put in jeopardy because a Government is afraid of a challenge?
Ken on Feb 27th, 2007New Police Power Undermines Human Rights
Well it’s taken a couple of years but finally the British government have had to cave into the EU Commissions demand that the British people must be subjected to Random Breath Tests.
Even though giving our police this power undermines one of our basic rights; that strange concept of the Presumption of innocence.
Back in 2004 [...]
Ken on Feb 20th, 2007EU fishing policy morally wrong
The EU fisheries commissioner Joe Borg says that the EU fisheries policies that encourage the throwing away of thousands of tonnes of dead fish are “morally wrong” and must be reformed.
According to the United Nations Worldwide, 8 per cent of the catch is discarded, but in some waters around Scotland and Ireland it reaches almost [...]
Ken on Feb 17th, 2007The Raving Corbett
Attempts to revive EU constitution
Sir: Richard Corbett MEP (Letters, 10 February) makes great play of the fact that 18 EU member-states have ratified the EU Constitution. He does not mention that most of those countries would have rejected it, had it been put to a referendum. Nor does he recall that it was not [...]
