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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Depends What You Mean By Human

An all-party Committee on Human Rights has proposed that all Britons should be given a legal guarantee of "a decent standard of living, health and housing", for the benefit of any future government which may happen to care about its legal obligations. Such rights could be enshrined under the Bill of Rights which the Glorious Successor no doubt has in mind for the next parliament, along with universal childcare for those who can afford it, parliamentary reform within reasonable limits and bringing home the boys from Iraq the minute Washington gives permission - all those nice things which a decade of economic growth and the size of New New Labour's majority have thus far prevented his accomplishing. It is possible that the Glorious Successor will accept a watered-down version of the committee's proposals, much as New New Labour was eventually forced to accept a watered-down version of ninety-day internment; certainly, on past form he is unlikely to accept any implication that hoodies, terror suspects and those of suspect Britishness have the same human rights as rich people and hard-working families.

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