tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post8270535133256054939..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: Yesterday's Men and today's BIG, BIG issueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-2472774825990923862015-05-01T17:03:02.937+01:002015-05-01T17:03:02.937+01:00JD responds:
Here are some (undiplomatic thoughts...JD responds:<br /><br />Here are some (undiplomatic thoughts) -<br /><br />I have said it over and over again at James's blog but nobody takes any notice: Parliament effectively abolished itself when it passed the European Communities Act of 1972. The supremacy of European Law over English Law was confirmed and explicitly stated by Lord Justice Laws in 2001 when he amended the Constitution and declared the 1972 Act to be a "Constitutional Statute":<br /><br />"Such statutes are, because of their constitutional importance, to be protected from implied repeal and, whilst not entrenched in English law, can only be repealed by the express intervention of Parliament."<br /><br />ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoburn_v_Sunderland_City_Council#High_Court<br /><br />You also hint at the problems which will arise from international trade agreements but everyone is very quiet about that one when it should be the biggest headline in every single nespaper every single day.<br /><br />Plato wrote of the five forms of government which progressively degenerate starting with Aristocracy at the top and Tyranny at the bottom.<br /><br />We are about to enter the fifth stage of that degeneracy not as Plato had envisaged it with an identifiable individual as the 'Tyrant' but with a tyranny best decribed as Corporatocracy, government by transnational corporations.<br /><br />Some people understand what is happening. Read very carefully and inwardly digest-<br /><br />http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/selling-out-sovereignty.html<br />Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-35045205820249998262015-04-28T15:42:33.949+01:002015-04-28T15:42:33.949+01:00Yes, Heath was indeed a global socialist. Even mor...Yes, Heath was indeed a global socialist. Even more worrying today is this Grand Coalition.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-88262179642325564912015-04-27T18:38:18.613+01:002015-04-27T18:38:18.613+01:00Funny that, I was thinking of Rollerball, too.Funny that, I was thinking of Rollerball, too.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-53232387658243185842015-04-27T14:08:19.425+01:002015-04-27T14:08:19.425+01:00If anyone remembers the backstory to 'Rollerba...If anyone remembers the backstory to 'Rollerball', it was that the nations had collapsed, and been replaced by corporate control. I fear that we are far along that path.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-39903745320905182282015-04-27T05:57:31.077+01:002015-04-27T05:57:31.077+01:00Thank you for the encouragement, AK, sometimes it ...Thank you for the encouragement, AK, sometimes it feels as though one is talking into a void.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-33886571647957163242015-04-26T20:01:12.024+01:002015-04-26T20:01:12.024+01:00A fine post - we need to keep reminding ourselves ...A fine post - we need to keep reminding ourselves about this crucial political journey and how it came about.<br /><br />These seem to be key issues - where are we now, where are we headed and do we have a worthwhile democracy?<br /><br />I think the EU and the AV referendum show us how accurate you are with this :-<br /><br />"But democracy can be used against itself, now as before: prejudice, misunderstanding, lack of understanding, misinformation, bribes and threats, the jokes of ignorant and partisan comedians, the slurs in the unthinking social media."A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.com