Let Clegg make the case to the public

THE HOME SECRETARY Theresa May, is suggesting temporarily tearing ourselves from the clammy grip of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), long enough to deport Abu Qatada, that mighty costly thorn in the side of the British tax payer.

            

             She is examining  this strategy and if it proves possible; what would then be expected to happen would be opposition from her coalition partners who look upon the ECHR with the same  majesty that 4^th century Catholics looked upon the Vulgate of St Jerome.

             

             David Cameron’s argument would be, that if this were to happen then Nick Clegg and those with a similar allure to the enticements of European Federalism, should have to explain to the British public why they have to continue paying hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits, and legal fees; as well as the cost of Qatada being detained at her majesty’s pleasure.

            

             Clegg would not be standing up for a great principle in English law (although Ken Clarke believes he would); but, as a Europhile, he would only be objecting to Mr Qatada’s departure, under such circumstance that went against the ruling of the ECHR; that great liberal fifth column that keeps terrorists happy and free from justice.

            In any case Clegg and Clarke should be forced onto our screens to explain their opposition to people who are fed up with this man’s contempt for the people and the culture who provided him with generous resources to keep himself and his lawyers from goading the British people.

THE BRITISH people must return to making their own laws once more supreme via the ballot box – this is democracy. People voting for the lawmakers to do what they said they would do in order to govern has been a centuries old recipe for sovereignty. Our lawmakers said nothing about English law being undercut by what amounts to be European  law. What are we voting for after all, if not to determine our own laws implemented fully by our national parliament?

            

             Clegg should be put in a position to explain this anti-democratic form of government which he supports; and the issue of Abu Qatada’s deportation is a good place to start. The law is sovereign - but only if it is a nation’s law. If, as Ken Clarke suggests, with or without the dictatorship of ECHR, no English judge would let a foreigner return to a land where torture is practiced – then this would be  something I can live with until the British people vote to reform such a law. What I, and millions of English citizens cannot tolerate is a foreign entity usurping our sovereignty in the way that Europe has been given the opportunity to do by our politicians.

            

            If I were in a position to do so, I would ignore the ECHR, on the grounds that this institution was signed up to without the consent of the British people. It was the circus of mountebanks in Westminster that signed us up to this convention, beginning in 1951: and I am saddened to report, that our politicians (at the time)  were the most eager of supporters of such an anti-democratic convention, in light, it has to be said, of the Second World War.

            

            For a nation to give up the ability to make their own laws and keep them sovereign over any foreign trespasser, is surely the bedrock of any democracy. All that goes against this is surely treason. But we have today in this country a political class that sees our future within Europe, and will do whatever proves necessary to keep this project alive. Even if includes the right under ECHR law to protect a Muslim terrorist who is hated in this country by its indigenous people; but, nevertheless, has demanded the benefits and his human rights represented by a lawyer paid for out of taxation.

ABU QATADA IS laughing at us. He uses the law like a football manager does the playing field. Instructed, via the tax payer, by his lawyers, he uses every opportunity available to him to remain in his British luxury (yes, even in prison), at  the forty-hour-a-week  working taxpayer’s expense.

            

             How can Clegg justify this to a law-abiding worker who pays his or her taxes believing they are contributing to his family’s health and education by doing so? What cases such as that of Abu Qatada show, are the people’s ever growing impotence and frustration and of their inability to act – to be given a say.  The anti-democratic manoeuvres made by our politicians to sign away the democratic cornerstones of our democracy; its independence; its liberties; the sovereignty of its laws – and, in coming decades, our ability to raise our own taxes and the independence of our budgets.

            

            The issue of Abu Qatada’s  human rights are important as a precursor of the great things to come, for Europhiles like Clegg, Clarke, Heseltine, and Mandelson - as well as  the whole political class; who are determined to bring about this nations absorption into the European Borg, and become (like those in the eurozone) part its collective.