Explosions

Lord Irvine, Blair's first Lord Chancellor and author of the Human Rights Act 1998, has said that some of our most senior judges have misinterpreted the Act and that all that must be taken into account in deciding a Human Rights case is the view of the Strasbourg Court. He goes on to say that having considered the view of the Strasbourg Court UK judges may make their own decision on the case before them. Will the Strasbourg Court though accept a UK court's decision on appeal if it does not coincide with the views of the European court? I doubt it and so it seems that if we want to run our own affairs in the way we have for centuries we must repeal Lord Irvine's Act. It was clearly an otiose Act anyway enacted with the sole purpose of making Blair and his government look good and what has the result been? Disaster - unless, of course, you think it is right and proper that we should have to allow the radical cleric Abu Qatada to remain here amongst us. This obligation imposed on us of accommodating the extremists amongst us will in the end result in a change to the law. Tolerant we may be but there is a limit. There is a limit too to the public's tolerance of welfare benefits being paid to the likes of Firuta Vasile who the welfare appeal tribunal decided that by selling the Big Issue she was self employed and thus entitled to benefits of £28,147.60 a year. This after having lived here for all of about four years. Why did she come here? This is yet another example of the crass stupidity of the EU. There will have been no proper vote on whether or not to agree to this kind of charitable donation. Who makes these rules and why do we agree to them or allow them to be imposed on us? We cannot go on like this. Unless our politicians do something about these types of cases there will be a quite understandable explosion.