Re: If you could remove one piece of legislation from the statute books, what would it be?

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:28:53 -0000, "Ophelia" <O@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MM wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:28:54 GMT, Paul Hyett <pah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 at 21:16:02, Periander <4rubbish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in uk.legal :

Rubbish it was a piece of tat cobbled together by British and
American Lawyers to try and stop Germany and its erstwhile
collaborators such as the French and Dutch from going down the same
hole we'd only just dug them out of. The whole concept of European
proles having rights was at the time anathema, no Anglo-Saxon
common law tradition. Of course at the time when we also signed up
for it we simply thought that we were setting a good example and
there was no idea that we would soon be under the heal of those
we'd just liberated.

Who said anything about being 'under the heel'? I want us out of the
EU for economic & social reasons, not political ones.

I want the right to decide whether to use the ultimate punishment
against murderers.

You'd have to vote in the BNP first. There's no way the mainstream
parties would ever agree, and neither would I.

I want the right to decide to we let into/exclude from our borders.

Would you exclude the immigrants already here? How far back do you
want to go? This is a dangerous row to hoe.

I want decisions made on our behalf to be made *only* by people
directly accountable to us!

And we decided, by referendum, to confirm our membership of the
European club. We are accountable to our parents and grandparents who
voted. Have you asked any of them why they didn't take account of any
future offspring and what they might think?

Because it was sold to us as a Common Market! Heath lied!

Tough! That's what happened. Presumably you believe that the people
who voted discovered beforehand what they were voting for? (Perhaps
not, given your previous comments.) And what would motivate people now
to vote one way or t'other if Gordon granted us a referendum? I expect
you know as well as I do that a majority would vote "no", simply
because they have been brainwashed into believing that the EU is all
bad. The number of voters who would actually take the trouble to study
the treaty and then make their decision on the basis of the facts
would be disappearingly small. I expect the majority of Westminster
politicans have only bothered to skim-read it, too.

MM
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