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Thunberg and climate protesters acquitted because new laws are ‘too broad’ and ‘unworkable’

Greta Thunberg: the courts have sided with her against the police.

This is clear: the Tory government’s changes to protest law are unworkable.

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Liz Truss imposed regressive cannabis law on Bermuda. Why?

Liz Truss: suppose the people of Bermuda had rebelled against her order not to legalise cannabis – would she have sent in the tanks?

This is bizarre: not only did Liz Truss ruin the UK’s economy during her 49 days (or however many they were) as prime minister of the UK, but she also stopped the people of Bermuda from having a good time:

Bermuda might be a UK overseas territory but it is internally self-governing and the British governor’s function is, basically, to rubber-stamp legislation by the House of Assembly of the island’s Parliament.

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So why did Liz Truss demand that the legalisation of cannabis be vetoed?

Wasn’t she going beyond her powers in doing so?

And should we be surprised that the island hasn’t declared independence in response to this betrayal of the 1620 Royal Proclamation granting limited self-governance?


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US passes law saying anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. It isn’t

Our American cousins – oh dear.

They seem a little confused:

Here’s the issue:

Yes indeed: you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist, meaning that opposition to Zionism simply cannot be anti-Semitism. To be anti-Semitism, it would have to be hatred of a Jewish person because they are a Jewish person. Keir Starmer isn’t Jewish. Rishi Sunak certainly isn’t.

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So, what is all this really about?

Could it be about making sure the United States has an excuse to keep selling its bombs to Israel, even though it seems clear that the onslaught against Gaza is part of the Zionist project to steal all the land in the original country with that name?

Here in the UK, people have a much more “grass roots” attitude; if the government won’t end support for Israel, we’ll jam up the mechanisms creating the weaponry:

We have a natural sense of justice that tells us it is wrong for a country with overwhelming military might to use it to slaughter children in a neighbouring country:

Back in the States, the population is spoonfed falsehoods:

We have seen Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza; we have heard how Israel warned Gazans to move from one part of the Gaza Strip to another, claiming they will be safe there – and then bombed the part they moved into.

We have concluded that Israel deliberately murders civilians, including women and children.

We may conclude that this is in the service of Israel’s Zionist project.

We may reasonably deduce that Gazans are anti-Zionist because of this.

Yet the United States has legislated that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

Isn’t that victim-blaming to justify genocide?


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Elgin Marbles controversy: the UK wrote a piece of paper so we can keep them. Huh?

The Parthenon Sculptures (or Elgin Marbles): the UK stole them, then wrote a law to say they’re ours. Can we all do that with other people’s stuff?

What’s the other name for them? The Parthenon Sculptures?

Right.

So the Parthenon Sculptures were in Greece – at the Parthenon – for thousands of years, but then the British Empire arrived and stole them.

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Decades after that – and after many years of argument with Greece over ownership of the sculptures – UK prime minister Rishi Sunak refused to attend a summit meeting with his opposite number in Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, apparently on the basis that he would be raising the ownership of the sculptures again.

This kicked up a fuss.

Now, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said the meeting would only have been with UK deputy PM Oliver Dowden.

She added that UK law protects the status of the sculptures, which she described as the “Elgin Marbles”, and that under this law, the sculptures must stay in the British Museum.

Here are a couple of tweets, one of which shows Keegan saying this, the other providing a reaction:

So the UK stole these rocks, then wrote a law saying the rocks are ours, and we expect that to stand up as a reason to keep them?

Really?

It reminds me of a line by Douglas Adams, which I’ll paraphrase: “Property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property, therefore these rocks are ours.”

I don’t think so.


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The Tories’ new legislative programme IS a wasted opportunity. When isn’t it?

Deeply unimpressed: King Charles III appeared to be frankly disgusted by the Tory plans he was constitutionally obliged to read out.

Keir Starmer has called it a wasted opportunity and for once This Writer agrees with him – although I’d be interested to see how different his own choices would be.

We’ll never know for sure because he never sticks to anything.

What we do know is Rishi Sunak’s legislative programme for the next year – as announced in the King’s Speech today (November 7, 2023). Let’s have a look at it, courtesy of the BBC’s summary:

  • A Sentencing Bill will require whole-life sentences for the worst murders, mean rapists cannot be released early, and make it more likely short sentences for lesser crimes are served in the community

We knew this was coming. The community service for lesser crimes is slightly problematic, considering this already happens. What are the lesser crimes that are now to be included?

  • A Criminal Justice Bill will introduce measures to force criminals to appear in the dock, and give police new powers to enter buildings without a warrant to seize stolen goods

What if police enter a house that doesn’t have any stolen goods in it?

  • The already-published Victims and Prisoners Bill would prevent certain prisoners from marrying, create new rights for crime victims, and deliver Jade’s Law on parental rights
  • An Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill will give law enforcement agencies greater access to certain personal data, and make tech companies clear security features with the Home Office

Political control over tech firms’ security?

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And what personal data will law enforcers be able to access?

This may need stern scrutiny.

  • The existing Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill will deliver Martyn’s law, forcing UK venues to draw up anti-terror plans
  • A Leasehold and Freehold Bill will ban leaseholds for new houses, but not new flats, in England and Wales, and increase the standard lease extension period to 990 years
  • The existing Renters (Reform) Bill will deliver a long-promised ban on “no-fault” evictions in England but this will only come into force after reforms to the court system

Why is this necessary? Does it seem that “no-fault” evictions won’t be banned unless these court reforms go through? Is it a sop to Tory MPs who are landlords?

  • Licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea to be awarded annually, under the Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill

This is to be opposed – extending the profit for fossil fuel corporations who should be diversifying into green energy.

  • An Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill will ban the export of cattle from Great Britain for fattening and slaughter

If anybody knows why this is necessary, please feel free to tell the rest of us?

  • An Automated Vehicles Bill will set a legal framework in Great Britain for self-driving cars
  • Pledges to strengthen consumer rights online and tackle fake reviews are contained in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
  • The existing Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will replace the data protection regime the UK inherited from the EU

But will it be better?

  • The Media Bill, published in draft form earlier this year, will scrap a never-enacted rule forcing media companies to pay the legal bills of people who sue them, even if they win
  • A Tobacco and Vapes Bill will deliver plans for a phased ban on smoking, and introduce restrictions on the packaging and marketing of vapes
  • A regulator for the top five tiers of English professional football will be established by the Football Governance Bill
  • A Pedicabs (London) Bill will give Transport for London new powers to regulate pedal-powered taxi cabs in the capital
  • An Arbitration Bill will introduce new rules for individuals and businesses to resolve disputes without going to court
  • A Trade Bill will enable the UK to join the 11-nation CPTPP trade pact with several countries in Asia and the Pacific

This is another one to watch. Does it include Invester-State Dispute Settlement systems that would allow corporations to sue national governments if they enact laws that would affect corporate profits? That would be harmful to democracy and the environment.

  • The Holocaust Memorial Bill will enable a Holocaust memorial to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens, near the Houses of Parliament
  • Public bodies will be banned from boycotting Israel under the Economic Activities of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill

Again, this is to be opposed as it is an offence against free speech.

  • A Rail Reform Bill creating a new body to oversee the railway in Great Britain is included, but only in draft form

This is one to watch. The Tories have no idea what to do with the rail system because privatisation has been a total disaster. It is unlikely that any changes in the new Bill will help.

Not included in the legislative programme are the following:

  • No new bill to ban the import of hunting trophies, after a Tory MP’s bill to do so was timed out in the last parliamentary session
  • A bill to introduce a ban on so-called conversion therapy to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity – promised since 2018

What’s the story here?

  • A bill authorising the construction of the HS2 rail line between Crewe and Manchester dropped
  • A draft bill to overhaul the treatment of people with learning disabilities and autism, mentioned in last year’s Queen’s Speech

Once again, vulnerable people are treated poorly?

That’s the line-up. Let’s see how it plays out.


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What could be more extremist, in the UK, than its own government?

Michael Gove: it seems this is the face of fascist extremism in the UK.

Leaked documents tell us that officials working for Michael Gove are planning to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values.

But who defines the country’s institutions and values? The government, I would say.

So this is a plan to criminalise anybody who protests against the behaviour of the government.

I would say that was a bit… you know… fascist. Wouldn’t you?

According to The Guardian,

The documents state: “Extremism is the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy, its institutions and values.”

But the UK’s system is likely to fall out of date and require constant revision, so this definition is – or should be – useless.

The proposed definition … lists a number of organisations which it considers would be “captured” by the new definition.

Among them are the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Palestine Action and Mend (Muslim Engagement and Development), which has featured at some Conservative party conference fringe events and in 2021 provided evidence to parliamentary committees.

Also among them, by his own definition, is economist Richard Murphy, who has written a lengthy ‘X’ thread on the subject. Here it is (I did the work on this before realising he’s collected it all into a web article himself but this gives me a chance to comment on parts of it):

He’s saying the UK’s institutions are not fit for purpose and therefore require reform – that would be prohibited by Gove’s planning legislation.

Personally, This Writer would oppose an extensive written constitution. Such documents limit our rights to what they describe. One saying that we can do anything other than what is prohibited by democratically-passed laws might be acceptable, providing those laws were subject to periodic review.

These seem reasonable to me; I guess I’m a terrible subversive too.

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I am not keen on a Bill of Rights – because I have seen what the Tory government would do with it. Tories would ensure that the rest of us were only allowed to do what’s necessary to make them richer and increase their freedoms. No – thank you.

There’s nothing objectionable here – or shouldn’t be. Why would an advanced, enlightened democracy want to restrict our freedoms?

This is all right on-the-button. The state is not a private company.

I think everybody knows I agree that the libel laws are not fit for purpose.

I also agree about British media firms – indeed, any firm that influences the lives of many people should be owned by people who live in the UK.

While the changes are being drafted by Michael Gove’s people, they would be enforced by Suella Braverman’s Home Office, so Mr Murphy is right to name-check her.

And yes, we all know that her attitude to reform is biased against people on the basis of their ethnicity.

That’s extreme in itself.

So it seems the best that can be said of this Gove/Braverman ‘reform’ is that it is symbolic of the very extremism it claims to oppose.


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Is Israel committing war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza?

Remember when this happened? It wasn’t long ago:

Bad move.

It’s a Geneva Convention law: nobody may be punished for an offence they have not personally committed and collective punishment is prohibited, as are pillages and the taking of hostages.

So: international law demands that civilians must not be harmed (certainly not deliberately).

This may come as a surprise to the European Union! And, indeed to this King’s Counsel, Jeremy Brier, who doesn’t seem to know the law as well as he should.

Also to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, who went on the record to say that he backs these war crimes that are clear violations of the Geneva Convention:

Sadly I must question whether the claim of an atrocity in a kibbutz near Gaza is an attempt to throw attention away from this.

I’m going to leave the last word – this time – to someone who experienced collective punishment as a person of Japanese ethnicity living in the United States during World War II, and went on to perform in a TV phenomenon that envisioned people of all colours, creeds and cultures living together in peace:

So to the question in the headline.

Not all people in Gaza are members of Hamas, and should not be punished for what Hamas has done. That much is clear, especially considering the fact that fully half of the population – a million people – are children.

But the Israeli government has declared that it is attacking everybody in Gaza indiscriminately, describing the population as “human animals”.

Is Israel committing war crimes, then?


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Tory government defiant after warning over sewage law breaches

Rivers of S**: unbelievably, the Tory government and regulators Ofwat and the Environment Agency reckon they have not broken the law by failing to regulate this torrent of untreated sewage properly.

Unbelievable but true: the UK’s Tory government is digging its heels in and insisting that it, together with regulators Ofwat and the Environment Agency, has not broken the law over how it regulates sewage releases into the UK’s waterways.

Here‘s the BBC:

The UK’s environment watchdog suspects the government and water regulators have broken the law over how they regulate sewage releases.

It follows continued high levels of sewage releases in England which topped 825 times a day last year.

Campaigners and opposition MPs have called the regulators “complicit” in allowing the pollution.

The government said it did not agree with the Office for Environmental Protection’s “initial interpretations”.

Following complaints to the OEP over sewage in June 2022 it announced it was investigating whether England’s regulators, Ofwat and the Environment Agency, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), were correctly enforcing the law on water companies.

In response to the announcement the government said: “The volume of sewage discharged is completely unacceptable. That is why we are the first government in history to take such comprehensive action to tackle it.”

That is hardly an alibi as it is the first UK government in history that needed to!

As for the substantive complaint – that far too much untreated sewage is stinking up our waterways – the instinctive urge is to come out with a lavatorial expletive like, “No sh**, Sherlock!”

Except…

It seems clear that there is far too much sh** flying around – as much from the mouths of government spokespeople as from privatised water firms’ pipes.


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Tory government is reported to UN over anti-strikes law. So what?

Strike: under the Conservative government’s new law, some of these strikers would probably have to work while their colleagues took industrial action – or lose their jobs legally. It might go against international laws, but does anybody really think the Tories care?

Does anybody really think anything useful will come of the Trades Union Congress reporting the UK’s Tory government to the United Nations’ watchdog on workers’ rights over a new law?

The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act will require some people to work during industrial action – including people in the rail industry and emergency services – or face being sacked.

The TUC reckons this “anti-strikes law” is unworkable and may be illegal.

The government has responded with a claim that the law protects the lives and livelihoods of the general public, ensuring that people can still access vital public service during strikes.

there would be no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is told to work through a notice but chooses to strike.

If a strike is not conducted in accordance with the new rules, employers would be also be able to sue unions for losses.

This Writer would like to know how having this reported to the United Nations would make anything better.

The UN is a paper tiger – it can’t force national governments to do anything at all, as we discovered when it found against the Tories over their treatment of disabled people (and, if I remember this correctly, the bedroom tax).

There seems no point in appealing to that organisation.

Even if the UN finds against the Tories, it seems the TUC will do a lot of work for nothing more than a public relations victory. Am I wrong?


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Former government lawyer responds appropriately to claim the ‘blob’ forced out Boris Johnson

Jake Berry: apparently the person behind him is a more astute political operator than he and his Tory colleagues.

David Allen Green of the Law and Policy Blog has been commenting usefully on the Covid and Partygate inquiries and their effect on Boris Johnson.

This Writer was therefore keen to read his response to former Tory chairman Jake Berry’s tweet, below:

I was not disappointed. Here’s what David Allen Green had to say about Berry’s intervention:

“Blobby blobby blob blob blobby,” blob Sir Jake Berry.

Blobby!

*

But.

Blobby blobby blob Brexit, blobby blob?

“Blobby blobby,” blob Mr Blobby.

Blobby blobby Privileges Committee, blobby blobby Boris Johnson?

“Blobby blobby,” blob Mr Blobby.

Well.

Blobby blobby blobby.

Blob, blob.

I’m sure we can all agree that this was indeed the appropriate response to the issues the former Tory Chairman has raised.

Like many of the comments by Rishi Sunak in Prime Minister’s Question, I think the public should be expected to consider it a full and frank answer, and the matter now closed.

Source: Did the “Blob” block Brexit and force out Boris Johnson? – a full and appropriate response – The Law and Policy Blog


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