Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Lisbon Treaty - OK by the monkeys
Rabinder Singh QC, appearing for Mr Wheeler, 73, said at a recent two-day hearing: "The Government promised a referendum and should keep its promise." At stake were the fundamental principles "of good administration, fair play and straight dealing with the public," he said. said they were disappointed by the ruling.
Ruth Lea, Director of the Global Vision think-tank, said: "Today's ruling by the High Court is extremely dispiriting especially as many European politicians have made it quite clear that the Lisbon Treaty is the Constitutional Treaty in all but name. "Under these circumstances, the British people are surely entitled to their referendum on the Treaty as the Irish people did. All our polling shows an overwhelming majority in favour of a referendum."
IMO: The fact remains that, whilst the UK is far from ungovernable, both of the major parties have shown that they can't govern it effectively - with the Tories, economics was crazy and Labor can't deal with the greedier unions, to be brief - and now Brown wants to govern by Stalinist style diktat so he can have an easier life. Unwise. Lisbon really is much the same as the earlier agreement, and Wheeler should win on appeal. But after cases like the incarceration of Sally Clarke, it is becoming very clear that the UK judiciary body is little more a bunch of no-hopers, misfits and monkeys, unfit to judge, in a modern scientific state.
Rabinder Singh QC, appearing for Mr Wheeler, 73, said at a recent two-day hearing: "The Government promised a referendum and should keep its promise." At stake were the fundamental principles "of good administration, fair play and straight dealing with the public," he said. said they were disappointed by the ruling.
Ruth Lea, Director of the Global Vision think-tank, said: "Today's ruling by the High Court is extremely dispiriting especially as many European politicians have made it quite clear that the Lisbon Treaty is the Constitutional Treaty in all but name. "Under these circumstances, the British people are surely entitled to their referendum on the Treaty as the Irish people did. All our polling shows an overwhelming majority in favour of a referendum."
IMO: The fact remains that, whilst the UK is far from ungovernable, both of the major parties have shown that they can't govern it effectively - with the Tories, economics was crazy and Labor can't deal with the greedier unions, to be brief - and now Brown wants to govern by Stalinist style diktat so he can have an easier life. Unwise. Lisbon really is much the same as the earlier agreement, and Wheeler should win on appeal. But after cases like the incarceration of Sally Clarke, it is becoming very clear that the UK judiciary body is little more a bunch of no-hopers, misfits and monkeys, unfit to judge, in a modern scientific state.
# posted by uv : 4:32 AM
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