Some very interesting ideas. I'm not so sure about the feasibility of inviting insurers to put skin in the game of offender rehabilitation, although if the State were to pay most of a premium anywhere near the cost of a prison place, there might be some interest for lesser offenders. Mostly however, this makes writing a War Risks policy for the Black Sea look the safer bet.
On repealing Ziegler - definitely; this is one of those 80/20 issues where a lot of votes are to be had simply from standing next to the 80, instead of the 20, which seems to have been the Conservative Party's bizzaro electoral strategy in recent years. Given that the actual text of the ECHR is replete with exceptions, heavily used to suppress free speech (unimpeded by the courts) the failure to pass other statutes that make clear that the provision is passed "notwithstanding" anything in the HRA (or more precisely, the judges' extreme interpretations thereof) is a total failure of nerve by Parliament. No wonder the Lady Chief Justice recently decided she could proclaim that something said in Parliament was "unacceptable", despite the Bill of Rights giving Parliamentary proceedings absolute protection from the courts.
Some very interesting ideas. I'm not so sure about the feasibility of inviting insurers to put skin in the game of offender rehabilitation, although if the State were to pay most of a premium anywhere near the cost of a prison place, there might be some interest for lesser offenders. Mostly however, this makes writing a War Risks policy for the Black Sea look the safer bet.
On repealing Ziegler - definitely; this is one of those 80/20 issues where a lot of votes are to be had simply from standing next to the 80, instead of the 20, which seems to have been the Conservative Party's bizzaro electoral strategy in recent years. Given that the actual text of the ECHR is replete with exceptions, heavily used to suppress free speech (unimpeded by the courts) the failure to pass other statutes that make clear that the provision is passed "notwithstanding" anything in the HRA (or more precisely, the judges' extreme interpretations thereof) is a total failure of nerve by Parliament. No wonder the Lady Chief Justice recently decided she could proclaim that something said in Parliament was "unacceptable", despite the Bill of Rights giving Parliamentary proceedings absolute protection from the courts.
Make England Great Again would be MEGA which is cool but I appreciate we’re governed as the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Britain is a solid hunk of shit through and through. You can't redeem it.
More delusional proceduralist claptrap.