Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic, episode 71!
This week:
- A new YouGov poll predicts an extinction-level event for the Conservatives at the next election unless the party does something radical
- Rishi Sunak struggles to quell the growing rebellion over the Rwanda Bill, but would Kemi Badenoch be any better?
- Trump wins big in Iowa, Vivek throws in the towel and speculation mounts as to who the Donald will choose as his running mate
- Gary Lineker deletes his tweet calling for Israel to be banned from the Euros, claiming he thought he was just retweeting a news story (cue Jimmy Hill chin-rubbing)
- James Cleverly bans Hizb al-Tahrir, but is it too little, too late?
- Plus Peak Woke and Review of the Reviews
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Compare and contrast:
Blair gets a big majority and has Human Rights Act in place within 12 months
Bunter gets a big majority and, three years on, the Bill of Rights is only on its second reading.
No wonder the Conservatives are being annihilated by the electorate.
They are completely rubbish at government.
“Blair gets a big majority and has Human Rights Act in place within 12 months”
And thereafter sets in train the dismantling of this country institution by institution, corrupting our education, flooding the country with immigrants, ratcheting racial tensions, destroying the health systems, grotesque and unnecessary spending on fake organisations like the WHO and on and on. Illegal and catastrophic wars that killed millions.
Tony Bliar – prior to the murderous Bozo the most evil man ever to occupy Downing St. Yes, Tony effing Bliar.
Well, actually the judiciary doing their job during covid would have been welcome in overturning laws that were inconsistent with our legal precedents. A sovereign parliament is not a panacea. Ideally you want some checks and balances and a legal, political and cultural respect for basic rights even in an “emergency”. But the only real backstop is the non-compliance of the people, but they were easily fooled by a few images and dodgy stats repeated over and over, and a costly advertising campaign.
A better prescription against tyranny would have been to remove the mechanisms by which the government manufactured consent – the BBC, SPI-B, any ability to buy advertising space.
As for the Bill of Rights, it’s a crock of shit.
Compare the US guarantee regarding free speech, freedom of religion and protest:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
…very brief, clear language, no caveats, with ours – full of caveats, wordy, worthless:
Article 9
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
1.Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right
includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or
in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or
belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such
limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society
in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or
morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
Article 10
Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom
to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without
interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall
not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or
cinema enterprises.
2.The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities,
may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are
prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of
national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of
disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of
the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information
received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the
judiciary.
Article 11
Freedom of assembly and association
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of
association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for
the protection of his interests.
2. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such
as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests
of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for
the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms
of others. This Article shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on
the exercise of these rights by members of the armed forces, of the police or of
the administration of the State.
I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion that the Covid pandemic was used as a test run.
Thanks to the pandemic we now have a State run Citizen ID system that also has the mechanism for command and control at the national level – the Covid Pass and its inbuilt QR Status Code.
Then we get to the legislation. It’s no coincidence that the first piece of legislation to be enacted was the Police and Crime Bill which allows the State to break up protests. That will be necessary as the consequences of subsequent Bills manifest themselves.
Part two is the Online Harms Bill which they can use to suppress dissent from the ‘approved narrative’ online. A site like this would be starved of oxygen as nobody would be able to find it, search engines like Google would remove it from its listings and its even possible that it could be blocked at the DNS level by the service providers – a taste of this is already being experienced by TCW which finds itself on the BBFC adult filter list which many mobile network providers use to block ‘adult’ (i.e. p o r n) content unless the user specifically contacts them to disable it. Not a great leap to get to the point where you can no longer disable the filter and it’s permanently enabled across the board – hello CCP Great Firewall, i’m looking at you!
Thirdly and most importantly we have this piece of legislation which allows current or future Governments to legislate to erode or remove any of our rights piece by piece. I’m not convinced that it prevents one of the most egregious abuses of power during the scamdemic either – the ruling by fiat through statutory instrument. If a future Gover decides we need Climate Lockdowns to ‘protect us’ this will be manna from heaven for that.
All in all, a very worrying direction of travel.
“All in all, a very worrying direction of travel.”
We have been for a very long time.
The Human Rights Act was not needed as we already had our rights enshrined in legislation dating back to 1285 Magna Carta in which it is written that no other laws or statutes can over ride it…. Anna de Buisseret has a brilliant take on the legislation which already exists & in which neither Judges or parliamentarians can meddle.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/conversation-with-anna-de-buisseret_IuK4yn4YBG2PGgm.html
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/anna-de-buisseret-open-mic_45jx2WObTpolGaH.html
Please send positive thoughts & prayers her way today – she’s in court seeking to use the law to make a foundational case to protect the forced injecting of disabled adults by CCGs just because they’ve been told to…. A young woman’s life is being shielded by this formidable & compassionate truth warrior.
From reading the article it seems to me that the most simple remedy for judges imposing their lefty* social policy views on us is to amend the HRA to remove Section 3.
Blair entered No.10 in 1997 and within a few years, had completely changed this country’s Constitution: HRA; Supreme Court; Devolution; Lisbon Treaty.
After 12 years of so-called Conservative Government (albeit 5 in Coalition with the LibDems) the CONs have done SFA to reform anything …… apart from semi-leaving the EU, which they did through gritted teeth because otherwise the Party would have been utterly destroyed.
They have made it perfectly clear that if you want rid of the disgraceful House of Frauds; want the English to have democratic parity with the devolved nations; want a fairer electoral system; want the Supreme Court reined in etc THERE IS NO POINT VOTING CON.
*Please don’t use the term progressive – there is nothing progressive about their attempts to dismantle British society. It is destructive.
Question:
Where does the Magna Carta sit in all of this?
Does it protect individual rights?