MEMORANDUM
To: The Partners
From: Dr Erasmus Strangelove MA(Oxon), BCL, Ph.D FRSA, Barrister
Director of Education and Strategy
POSITION PAPER ON HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Gentlemen – I have been asked to set out by way of review, as far as this is possible given the vacillation and lack of principles in political circles, the position currently being taken on Human Rights by leading members of the three political parties. [I have included the Lib-Dems for the purposes of this memorandum as a political party, but judging by YOUGov polls it may cease to exist and simply become the tree hugging wing of the Conservative Party with other Lib-Dems going over to join the Ambassador from Planet F**k in what he is now calling Optimistic Labour]
2. Human Rights is important to this firm – not, of course, in terms of our observing same with our employees – but in terms of maximising and leveraging fees, profit and revenues. I believe that there are many opportunities ahead for significant billable work in this field in the next five years. Our forces, unions, police, riots, cuts, government incompetence et al will and ‘should’ provide some fairly good abuses and we must be ever ready to assist our clients with claims and litigation.
3. The Tories: Before the election, David Cameron, who, it has to be said does not appear to have law (Rule of or otherwise) uppermost in his mind, declared that the Human Rights Act was the creature of evil and had to be replaced with a Big Society BRITISH Bill of Rights.
Partners may well remember Cameron’s speech where he came up with this bollocks. I quote by way of reminder…
The fact that the murderer of Philip Lawrence cannot be deported flies in the face of common sense. It is a glaring example of what is going wrong in our country. What about the rights of Mrs Lawrence? The problem for this government is that the Human Rights Act is their legislation and they appear to be blind to its failings.”
Lord Howard QC – that well known hanging and flogging Home Secretary, still appears to have something of the night about him and has called for the HRA to be replaced. Now that he has been shunted upstairs we do not, fortunately, have to consider his views at all, let alone seriously.
One advantage of Coalition government is that the extreme right tin foil hat wearing members of the Tories have been reined in and an excellent article in The Guardian has noted…
Lord McNally is one of a number of coalition outriders for the retention of the HRA. Conservative attorney general Dominic Grieve QC is “broadly comfortable” with the Act. In 2006, Ken Clarke branded the move to a British bill of rights “xenophobic”. Nick Clegg, the deputy PM, has even claimed this year that he will lead the charge for the Human Rights Act, although when this campaign is due to start in earnest is unclear. A band of Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have clearly influenced the government’s climbdown on the Human Rights Act, but this change must not be a silent one.
4. Views from Planet F**k: The new Leader, Ed Miliband, who destroyed his brother’s political career with the panache and skill worthy of a Partner at Muttley Dastardly LLP, gave a rather weird speech at ‘Conference’ the other day when he declared himself all in favour of criticising the Labour government of the past – despite his writing the last manifesto – and declared that Labour had to be the party of Civil Liberties. This latter was rather ironic as I seem to recall that the largest erosion in civil liberties in history came in the twelve or so years of Labour government. Red Ed is in favour of civil liberties – without explaining to his Red Flag singing sycophants what they are – but wants to retain CCTV and DNA. This tends to indicate that he hasn’t really understood what civil liberties are and his thoughts are a *work in progress*. They may continue to be for some time until he fucks the leadership up and we get another lengthy leadership election. We are *monitoring* the new Labour Party most carefully and Psyops18, our covert dissimulation unit, are (sic) on twitter 24/7 both monitoring and sowing dissent under the guise of Libertarian ranters.
5. Conclusion: I shall continue to review – but the prognosis for good fee earning looks good
Dr Erasmus Strangelove
Strength & Profits
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Brilliant!
‘This tends to indicate that he hasn’t really understood what civil liberties are and his thoughts are a *work in progress*.’
This is SO accurate that I am in a state of deep depression. I shall have to have a glass or two to calm down. 😦
Good piece CharonQC …
When you really look at it, most politicians of all political colours have consistently acted to destroy the civil liberties and rights of the citizen. This process will continue.
The coalition is busy just now trying to get self-serving and unnecessary legislation through so that they are locked in power until 2015 no matter what happens. That this is among their first legislative concerns actually speaks volumes about them.
I have noticed that ED M has got some stick today for “destroying” his brother’s career. I don’t see why he ought to have excluded himself from this contest and he got there under the Labour Party’s own scheme for electing a leader. Maybe David M ought to have spent rather more time chatting up the Unions but … hey … that’s not really his cup of tea is it? Hilary Clinton maybe … but not Bob Crow and his like …!
I was singularly unimpressed by ED M’s speech and I commented on it earlier this week. However, I will spend my weekend trying to work out why so many people were impressed by it. Maybe they don’t listen to words and analyse them and also fail to spot the bits left out. Then again, it is the weekend … maybe something better to do will come up …. !
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