A Most Important Vote

One of the most important issues facing this country is that of our sovereignty as a nation. For years now and particularly since we joined the EU we have been subjected to laws made elsewhere and on which we as a people have had no method to contest or reject. All the parties have consistently let us down on this issue. That is why it is essential that the Commons votes against the ruling of the European Human Rights Court that we give prisoners the right to vote. We need to demonstrate that we are a sovereign power by making it absolutely clear that it is obnoxious cant on the part of the Court to involve itself in the democratic decisions of this country even when those decisions were made a century or more ago. We also need to roll back the domination of the state in so much of what we do. That is why it is so important that the Big Society succeeds since it will have the effect in some instances of stopping and perhaps also of even  rolling back the ever increasing interference in our daily lives by the state. The last Labour government in conjunction with the EU have purposely made us more and more dependent on them so that they can exercise ever more control over us. Benedict Brogan makes a very good point in his article in the Daily Telegraph today about how those who are dependent on the state are not going to vote for a party which wants to cut the apron strings but will continue to vote for their subsidies instead. Could the Big Society be a subtle way of trying to cut the apron strings? Even if not we have got to get back to a point where the state is significantly smaller than the private sector. It seems incomprehensible to me that as the state in the form of the last government was in large part to blame for the credit crunch in this country that it should not be the state that takes the brunt of the burden of re-balancing the economy rather than the private sector as is now happening. Taxes should be cut to generate growth and a significant number of the civil and municipal service should be dismissed.