With two members of the BNP being found "NOT GUILTY" and Gordon Brown promising to "Make the Law to find them Guilty even if a Jury of their peers said otherwise" does the New Labour Stasi care about the Law when they are handing out Peerages for Cash? (not allegedly).
2006-11-11 06:02:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The problem with New Labour is that they've been in power for too long and are starting to believe their own hype.
2006-11-11 06:07:36 · answer #1 · answered by jonmorritt 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What Gordon Brown said is possible due to the doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy in the UK Constitution. Parliament can pass a law with retrospective effect to produce the results that Brown wants with regard to the 2 BNP members. There is precedent for this. See the War Damages Act 1965, which effectively overruled the House of Lords decision in Burmah Oil Co. Ltd. v Lord Advocate.
2006-11-12 19:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by pengsanking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a theory. The powers at be do not want the law to be black and white, but shades of grey. The reason behind this is, if the the law was cut and dry you would not need lawyers or judges. The law enables lawyers to argue onbehalf of the Crown or their client. It enable Judges and jurys to take a diffrent take on every case. Law makes to much money for too many people.
Labour think nothing of the victims and The Human Rights Act is protecting the wrong people
2006-11-11 06:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by GRILL 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evidently not. A jury of twelve upstanding people found them not guilty. That should be an end to the matter.
This rather puts me in mind of the BNP victory in Millwall a few years ago. The new councillor appeared on Question Time (for any US reading this, that's a weekly political panel programme). He had to endure people shouting at him that his win was a disgrace. No one pointed out that 10,000 people in Millwall chose him over all the other candidates. To me, that shows a lack of respect for the voters. But then, as a former council leader in one of England's larger cities once sad to me "Politics isn't about helping people - it's about power."
2006-11-11 06:14:16 · answer #4 · answered by skip 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Get your facts right.
Some members of the government are asking the question "Is the legislation against incitement to racial violence strong enough?". Surely, since you obviously value free speech so much, this is a question which ought to be put in a democracy. The answer may be yes or no.
Here are some of the lovely ways that the BNP defendants use their right to free speech.
NICK GRIFFIN
ON RACE “Without the White race, nothing matters. [Other right-wing parties] believe that the answer to the race question is integration and a futile attempt to create “Black Britons”, while we affirm that non-Whites have no place here at all and will not rest until every last one has left our land”
ON THE HOLOCAUST “The ‘extermination’ tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie and latter witch-hysteria”
ON POWER “When the crunch comes, power is the product of force and will, not of rational debate. We have to have a body of trained young men capable of defending our organisation. If people come to crack our heads we will break theirs”
MARK COLLETT
ON WINSTON CHURCHILL “Churchill was a f****** c*** who led us into a pointless war with other whites standing up for their race.”
ON THE PRINCE OF WALES “He’s a f****** traitor. Did you hear him say we needed more mosques in this country? All Muslims are anti-British terrorists.”
ON WHETHER BRITISH-BORN BLACKS ARE BRITISH “Just because a dog is brought up in a stable doesn’t make him a horse.”
ON THE ROYAL FAMILY “The Royals have betrayed their people. When we’re in power they’ll be wiped out and we’ll get some Germans to rule properly.”
ON AIDS A “friendly disease because blacks, drug users and gays have it.”
ON JEWS “There’s not a European country the Jews haven’t been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it’s not just persecution. There’s no smoke without fire.”
ON ADOLF HITLER “Hitler will live forever; and maybe I will.”
If you think a Labour government (who we voted in and can vote out) doesn't care for the law, the BNP will leave you in no doubt.
2006-11-12 10:20:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
New Labour do not care and the emphasis seems to be on rehabilitating the criminal rather than justice being served. New Labour are after the money they can accumulate for their own means and avarice seems rife e.g. John Prescott and his Jags, Blair on all these holidays etc. Our UK prisons are just about full, but social workers who look after prisoners who need watching and monitering in the community is insufficent and there is one social worker to every 37 of these ex-cons who need this service after release. There is so much human rights and statistics that real justice has been lost under New Labour.
2006-11-11 07:35:04 · answer #6 · answered by star 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not guilty means not guilty, I have the impression that there is a jury out there trying to tell us something.
2006-11-11 06:31:27 · answer #7 · answered by Spanner 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Labour have no morals and don't care about the British people they are only out to line there own pockets.
2006-11-11 06:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by Ivan 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They are all bent and on the fiddle want to make a law to arrest them
2006-11-11 06:08:04 · answer #9 · answered by paul t 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
DOES NEW LABOUR FECKING CARE?
2006-11-11 06:58:33 · answer #10 · answered by Welshchick 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋