European Union and Westminster Politics
What is the point of our government acquiring an opt-out from EU legislation and then transforming our national laws to fall into exact alignment with the original EU legislation? It would be reasonable to assume that the opt-out was negotiated in the first place because the EU laws were not acceptable to our government, it is certainly the [...]
Phillip Johnston Home Affairs Editor of the Telegraph has an article in Mondays edition on how measures of constitutional significance are handled in the British Parliament. One might wonder exactly what Mr Johnston has been doing with his time if he has only just realised the impact our membership of the EU and the way [...]
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 [...]
The Times is reporting that proposals drawn up by the Home Office envisages a huge extension of fixed-penalty notices from early 2007. They would apply to nearly 30 offences, including assault, threatening behaviour, all types of theft up to a value of £100, obstructing or assaulting a police officer, possession of cannabis, and drunkenness, the [...]
The Saga of “Treason Act 1795”. By Anne Palmer, 8.3.2005. As many of your are aware, I trail certain debates in our Parliament and also, from time to time, the European Parliament, and so it was on 17th November 2004 in a reply to Lord Tebbit’s question, “Whether, and if so by what statutory provision, [...]
In the main on this blog I have steered clear of immigration subjects, it is far too easy to be branded xenophobic or racist in order to undermine the real message. However now I do so with the intention of pointing out the duplicity of the British governments handling of the issue of economic immigration [...]
Sir – Three former employees of NatWest are to be extradited to America for an alleged offence, using legislation promulgated by the Government that is designed to deal with suspected terrorists, and which does not even require the American authorities to present prima facie evidence of wrongdoing (Business, June 28). This comes hard on the [...]
From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy In January the commissioner of the Metropolitan police got into enormous trouble for saying that he couldn’t see why the Soham murders had become such a big story. Like every other journalist, I marvelled at his inability [...]
This week it was reported that the Home Office intends to link implementation of an Identity Card and National Identity Register with an EU Directive on the content of passports. In fact, as we have repeatedly reported, the UK is not bound by the EU biometric passport regulations because it is not a signatory to [...]
Ping pong ends after record breaking 6 bats, On Wednesday the Identity Cards Bill was passed by parliament. The endgame began on Monday the House of Lords voted by 219 to 191 to amend the ID cards bill and duly sent it back to the Commons for a 5th time. At issue was the nature [...]
Baroness Harris of Richmond asked Her Majesty’s Government: How many sections enabling Ministers to amend primary legislation by means of secondary legislation have been included in each Home Office Act passed from May 1997 onwards. [HL4543] The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): The table below lists sections of (and, in [...]
Observer This ID project is even more sinister than we first thought The insidious erosion of our civil liberties will accelerate dramatically if the government wins the battle over identity cards Henry Porter Sunday March 19, 2006 The Observer You may have noticed the vaguely menacing tone of recent government advertising campaigns. Here is a [...]
This from Anne Palmer 11.3.2006. A Traitor’s Bill. Known also as the Abolition of Parliament Bill. Officially called The Legislative Regulatory Reform Bill. I would like to draw attention to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill presently going through Parliament one way [...]
From the letters page in the Times some voices of concern. This ID card infringes fundamental freedoms Sir, Most unusually, you have allowed yourself to be misled by the Government’s spin and misrepresentations concerning the ID Card Bill — principally by swallowing its contention that the privacy concerns of many people in the UK are [...]
David Lidington, the Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, has suggested that The Oath of Allegiance to the Queen sworn by MPs should be reviewed to encourage Sinn Fein to take up their seats in the House of Commons. This might encourage them to do so but it is doubtful because they do not want Westminster as [...]
From Denis Cooper, commenting on the article below 1. ” The response of the Home Office minister Fiona McTaggart – someone whose job I thought was to defend free speech – was deeply depressing. She refused to defend either the theatre or the playwright and insisted on the moral equivalence of the writer and her [...]
“The Rose Tinted Glasses of Lord Haskins by Eurealist at 11:28AM (BST) on May 2, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos Christopher HASKINS, (Board member), Britain in Europe, Not slow to miss an opportunity to don his rose coloured spectacles, Lord Christopher Haskins tells us in a letter to the Times “May 1, marks the [...]
The Saga of Treason Act 1795 By Anne Palmer, 8.3.2005. As many of your are aware, I trail certain debates in our Parliament and also, from time to time, the European Parliament, and so it was on 17th November 2004 in a reply to Lord Tebbits question, Whether, and if so by what statutory provision, [...]
Harmonising Criminal Law The “FOC Myth†series did not mention the fact that under the new EU Constitution, all Member States will have to respect judgments handed down by other national legal systems within the EU. At the same time, membership of the EU will entail an obligation to treat all European citizens “in a [...]
EU Referendum Comments on the EU Arrest Warrant showing that the goverement we elect is no longer interested in protecting the people. “In a report last week, the committee said: “We found it disturbing that a person’s home might be entered and searched at the request of a foreign authority for the purpose of obtaining [...]
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Shyster lawyers and charlatans Proof that this Parliament, apart from making bad law, doesn’t know the reason for repealing good law. I bet the traitor Blair knows though Good work Anne, it’s a pity the Baroness Scotland couldn’t make a public apology, but hopefully by publishing this letter we can show [...]
A Very interesting post, linking two recent news items and the Nazi regime it just goes to show that history teaches us that those who wish to create tyranny have only to look back to find the methods. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Well, what can one say, after the furore and outcry about Prince Harry [...]
“active European citizenship” Tracing the money the EU Commision is spending on Propaganda is like trying to find your way through a maze, not even the UK Select Committee on European Scrutiny seems to have much, luck by the time they get to ask questions of ministers there seems to be a very short amount [...]
Telegraph | Opinion | Howard preferred ridicule to being thought soft on terror: Until Michael Howard flunked the test yesterday and forced his reluctant frontbench Tory colleagues to endorse the looming multi-billion-pound ID card fiasco, the Tories had at least one promising vote-winning issue for next year’s election campaign. A question could have been put [...]
Hazel Blears MP Labour Member of Parliament for Salford, Home Office Minister, defends the Civil Contingencies, Act in the Telegraph. But we should all understand that these are Bolshevik-style powers, so sweeping and totalitarian that they sound as if they have been lifted out of some 1930′s banana-republic manifesto, no democratic parliament in a free [...]
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