Sunday, 29 May 2022
Thursday, 24 February 2022
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Blogger seems to have changed in the years I was absent. I used to be able to embed videos quite easily but that facility seems to have been 'updated' out of the programme.
Here it is:
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Monday, 10 January 2022
The Persecution of Doctor Mel Bruchet (Canada)
https://rumble.com/vs7r9r-the-5th-doctor-ep.-16-physician-and-activist-dr.-mel-bruchet-update-and-int.html
Saturday, 1 January 2022
Some Thoughts on Constitutional Reforms
This is going to be bitty because my circumstances prevent me from writing anything coherent in one or a few sittings. I haven't been able to write anything as a sustained effort for some time. I'll add to it periodically and then edit it when I feel it is worth doing so. This is a work in progress. I jot down links and ideas here, which I will expand on and refine.
I've covered some of this before, some years ago. I feel that it is worth restating. The general intention is to reshape the present constitutional arrangements so that our descendants never find themselves in the mess we are in rather than to advance policy ideas, rather than to make policy suggestions.
Make all MPs accountable wholly and solely to their constituents.
Abolish the whip system.
MPs to be paid and supported by their constituencies.
Support means provision of offices and staff, payment of all expenses. provision of a home in the constituency, where the MP does not already own one. Ideally MPs would be natives of the constituency with roots there.
Everything an MP needs to do his job should be provided by the constituency. It should be an extremely serious criminal offence to circumvent the 'procurement process'.
Constituencies managed by the equivalent of a watch committee.
This is 'do-able'. Watch Committees to be elected, eligibility restricted to voters with no criminal record.
End unqualified universal adult suffrage. It cannot be right to allow anyone who is supported from the public purse to vote on matters of financial policy. Restriction of the franchise to nett tax payers only. No one paid from the public purse would be allowed to vote.
No one with no understanding of the constitution or the economy can be allowed to vote.
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Separation of Powers - this is not a new idea, the brainchild of the geniuses behind the 'Harrogate Agenda'; it is a provision of the Act of Settlement of 1701, which needs to be revived and enforced.
No member of parliament should be serving as a minister or as speaker.
No lawyers to be allowed to sit in parliament or serve in the government.
No religious officials of any faith.
There is a case to be made and considered for allowing foreigners who are long-term residents and nett tax payers to have a limited say in how those taxes are spent.
Function of The Crown
A lot of people seem incapable of understanding that it is not necessary to retain the monarchy to maintain The Crown. The Crown can exist as a source of loyalty just as effectively as a flag or a written constitution. The Crown can be an abstraction that governs an individual's conduct and loyalties.
Treason
Treason - I cannot see how individuals who do not take money from the crown and have not sworn an oath of allegiance to the country can be guilty of treason.
Friday, 8 October 2021
After the New Normal
Thursday, 14 May 2015
If You Have Nothing to Hide ...
The Grooovey One speaks (1) and no one feels afraid. Watch this and be afraid:
A government that believes obeying the law is no guarantee of freedom from interference in one's life by those ostensibly acting on behalf of the law, in a world in which 'The Police' do not understand, recognise, respect or obey the law, should be a terrifying place for those who depend upon the rule of law but sufficient see it as more comforting than the alternative, which is why The Grooovey One now feels able to clamp down on lawful dissent, which is simply another term for freedom of speech and expression.
Gruff thanks to Talbot Munce, at Crimebodge for the link to the video.
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(1) The Daily Mail, 13 May 2015 (published on-line at 00:14) 'We must end the idea that as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone, says Cameron in hardline terror crackdown'