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The lingering presents of New Labour are still with us. The constitutional vandalism of Tony Blair’s legal, judicial and administrative revolution has to be tackled head on. If the problems of illegal migration and the woke culture running through our national institutions are to be solved.
There is a saying that ‘politics is downstream of culture’. Yet, putting culture above politics is mistake as both politics and culture influence each other. To tackle illegal migration - to stop the boats - and the wokism that seem to be awash in our institutions the New Labour political, bureaucratic and judicial order – the underlying causes - needs addressing.
The idea was that Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act would “bring rights home”, it has done no such thing. In practice it has deepened a democratic deficit that the ECHR has created.
The plain fact of the matter is that ECHR and European Court of Human Rights are a limitation on our national sovereignty, and we cannot project our borders without withdrawing from these trans-national institutions. Both the ECHR and European Court of Human Rights bear little resemblance of themselves when they were first set up in 1950 and 1960, as they now try to impose domestic legal rights on us.
They confiscate fundamental decisions that our ministers should be taking, such as the decision about who can or cannot live in the Britian.
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The ECHR is hostile to the British constitutional traditions and the Europeanisation of our legal, judicial and administrative systems require rolling back. ECHR is governed by an irreversible law and the effect of it undermines a foundational tenant of sovereign; that is, the control our national borders.
The Convention is meant to bestow rights and obligations, yet it seems that rights trumps obligations and those who do the wrong thing are protected and the people who do the right thing are penalised. This is of course an unjust situation.
In our constitutional system if a law is failing to do what is expected of it, the law could and should be change. This is not the case with the Convention because it is a dead weight on the British Government and dead weight on implementing government policy which is to ‘stop the boats’.
We are also seeing an increasingly interfering control of government actions by the Supreme Court, another bit of constitutional vandalism by Blair’s New Labour. The Supreme Court should be abolished and we should return to the superior constitutional arrangements of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords with the place in Parliament.
Tackling woke culture in our institutions and big businesses will require the repeal of another New Labour policy the Equality Act 2010, which was passed in the dying days of the Labour Government. It is hard to overstate the damaging impact it has had and the effect on how the civil service operates.
Ensuring free speech, and to reverse political correctness and woke culture in our national institutions will not happen unless the Equality Act 2010 is scraped.
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Unfortunately, the Act has become a weapon to narrow down a wide range of opinions to a few ‘luxury beliefs’. It has also allowed all sort of woke stuff to permeate public and private institutions.
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There is now a cottage industry of ‘equality impact assessments’ in the civil service and some civil servants have gone ‘beyond compliance’ in their guidance on ‘diversity, inclusion and equality’ and decided to include more of what they wish to be in the Act.
The Act is now being used not to prevent discrimination but as a tool for social engineering. In the name preventing unfair discrimination, there has proliferation of courses and training session of topics that has questionable value fort the individual, equality of opportunity or performance, such as “unconscious bias” courses.
To protect our freedoms and our boarder the Equality Act 2010 must be repealed and we much leave the dead weights of the ECHR and European Court of Human Rights. Any promises to dismantle wokery and to ‘stop the boats’ are inconsequential, because without tackling Tony Blair’s constitutional revolution, the legal and administrative underpinnings will still be in place to sustain them. Unpicking New Labours revolution is long overdue yet if Sir Keir Stramer becomes Prime Minister things will only get worse.
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