Blog 3

As of next month the UK should be switching its highest court of law from the House of Lords to the UK Supreme Court, a move deemed by some to be unnecessary, as it is the same people practically, with the same powers, just in a different building. Others, say it’s about time that it moved to a separate area from the government itself.

However this debate will soon be rendered obsolete, as the EU, the so called democratic institution that runs most of Europe, is forcing the Irish to re-hold their referendum because, to put it simply, they didn’t like the result. For many reasons this is wrong, and makes a laughing stock of the EU’s very shaky claims to democracy, but that’s not the point I’m making (In this blog at least). The point is that until they force the Lisbon treaty (The EU with a bit of dressing up and a new name) through they will keep making Ireland vote, and when it gets though our supreme court that we’ve spent millions on will be so much wasted money as almost all laws will come from Europe and almost all jurisdiction therefore on point of law (the area of law our supreme court deals with) will be handed over to Europe, so the Judges and Lords sat in the Supreme court will be left there twiddling their thumbs

Blog 2

This week’s installation is on the Conservative’s proposed cuts in public spending. I heard one person in my Government and politics class saying that education and healthcare will suffer, but they’ve already promised they wont cut either of them, and defence wont be cut either (Nor will it be increased substantially like they said they would like to however), but it wont be cut, so the (arguably) 3 most important areas are safe, so the question is where will the cuts fall. Welfare is a definite, but not to those who actually NEED it ( I.E. those who cant support themselves) but those who wont will suffer (and about time as well), also they could (Like Thatcher) cut our outgoings to Europe, which will save us millions.
But the main cuts will fall on quango’s, those non-government agencies that most of us have heard of, but few actually know what they do, some do an important job such as those who monitor food markets, qualities and trends, but are highly overstaffed, others just meddle, such as the racial equality commission, who mean well but are oversized and overpowered commissions. But the most important problem is they are not accountable to anyone (meaning that we cannot complain when they do something wrong), and many do jobs that MP’s are supposed to do, like telling the government how people feel, and what their opinions are. Aside from wasting taxpayers money however the biggest problem with them is that all the people who work there need to appear to be doing something, so have to come up with ideas that nobody else has, and this leads to stupid ideas that nobody else has implemented due to the sheer unworkability or idiocy of the idea, such as fining people who haven’t been vetted to work with children for doing so, sounds great, until you realise this law allows councils to fine helpful parents for taking their friends child to scouts, or football (When they say kids don’t exercise enough already) and also will stop parents from volunteering at local schools to help out on taking children on trips, such as to farms, castles and other off site educational places because there aren’t enough vetted staff to take them, blinkering children further to the real world, and hampering their education. So in cutting these they will be doing us all a favour, but will be creating “Mass unemployment”, but we cant afford to employ these “Jobsworths” any longer, and the jobs shouldn’t exist in the first place.
So Gordon Dulce est decpere in loco