{"id":1786,"date":"2009-05-26T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2009-05-26T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:06:53","slug":"camerons-speech-in-milton-keynes-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Cameron’s Speech in Milton Keynes: FAIL."},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron has just delivered his speech in Milton Keynes, and the Daily Mail has an article on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s see shall we?<\/p>\n

An end to ‘top-down authoritarianism’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

authoritarianism that is bottom up instead of top down is still authoritarianism<\/b>. FAIL.<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Education:<\/b>
\nTake power out of councils’ hands and give it to parents
\nEnd state monopoly of state education
\nAny suitable organisation can set up a new school
\nParents can send child to different school if unhappy
\nnew extra payment for children from poorest families\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And ‘enshrine the rights of Home Educators’ is missing from that list. As is enshrining the rights of parents. Also, the scrapping of ContactPoint is not anywhere mentioned here is it? How can you return power to parents if you COMPEL them to be listed on an Orwellian Database that is made to work against them, violating the sanctity of the family, privacy and everything else bad that ContactPoint<\/a> does? FAIL.<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Housing:<\/b>
\nlocal community to decide size and shape of their area
\nnew local housing trusts giving neighborhoods power to build houses they want
\nplanning permission granted if agreement on local level<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once again, the local community, a collective, cannot have the power to say what you can and cannot do on your own land. If Britain is to be a free country, then what you do on your property is your business, as long as it does not interfere with anyone else’s life or property. FAIL.<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Local government:
\ncut back on central regulation and targets
\nend central ring-fencing of local budgets
\npublication of spending over \u00a325,000 online
\nlocal referendum on any excessive tax increases
\nkeep proceeds on any activity that boost local economic growth
\nnew general power of competence to act without government’s permission
\ndirectly elected mayors
\npolicing under local democratic control<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Local referendum on tax increases? So the collective can decide to steal more as long as the majority vote for it? FAIL.<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

“Policing under local democratic control”. Does this mean that if the local community wants smoking in pubs, speed limits on roads, an end to ‘drug’ prohibition etc etc, that they can have a police force that will only enforce the laws that the local community agrees on?!!<\/i> WIN!<\/b><\/p>\n

Europe and Justice<\/b>
\nredistribute power from EU to Britain and judges to the people
\nreferendum on Lisbon Treaty
\nlaw to require referendum on any further transfer of power to Brussels
\nnegotiate return of powers and greater scrutiny of European legislation
\nBritish bill of rights to strengthen liberties
\nproper democratic accountability over creation of new rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

British bill of rights to strengthen liberties WIN.<\/b> Although how this line is worded should give everyone pause. Rights are absolute, not conditional. A bill of rights that lists conditional rights<\/i> like the German Constitution<\/a> is going to be complete FAIL. The right to privacy, the right to property, freedom to travel and all the other rights that are well understood and which have been enshrined in the constitutions of other countries<\/a> should be in any bill of rights that Britain adopts. I fear that it is not likely that anyone in Britain today who is currently in a position to make it happen, has the spiritual and intellectual purity to write such a document. In any case, I mark it as ‘WIN’ because it is the right noise.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of it, Britain should not be in the EU, so everything else on that list is in that block FAIL.<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

So, it looks like Cameron is full of FAIL<\/b>. No surprise there.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail article title is:<\/p>\n

Cameron promises fixed-term Parliaments under Tories as he unveils ‘manifesto’ to tackle ‘Orwellian state’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no mention in this article about anything to do with the Orwellian state; i.e. the NIR, ID Cards, ContactPoint and the insane number of networked CCTV cameras in the UK.<\/p>\n

Like I said before<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Shifting the the responsibility for running the nanny state from the centre and distributing this vile power to the regions does not solve the actual problem, which is that people are tired of being interfered with by power itself<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Can you think of anything worse than being under the thumb of non cosmopolitan people with the power of the Orwellian State to back them up? We know what it looks like, thanks to New Labour; witness the recent outrages of Councils using Anti Terrorism laws to spy on the people they are ‘serving’:<\/p>\n