Charlie Falconer is a Winnit in the Crack of Democracy

The Devil's Kitchen has a brief post up about a man I have posted about before too: Charlie Falconer. This time he is saying that the Human Rights Act contains rights which are as British as "the BBC" (how I laughed) and "a pint of bitter" (not Boddington's then).

This fat tosser really does think Britons did not have any rights at all until his munificent government granted them to us. He really does not think there is any common law tradition, or that people in this country have ever enjoyed any freedoms, before New Labour. He really does not see how the abolition of double jeopardy, jury trial, habeus corpus and the presumption of innocence in some kinds of trial seem to be perfectly compatible with all these wonderful rights granted in the HRA. That's because he regards, like Blair, everything in English and UK law pre-1997 to be utterly irrelevant to a codification of rights that can be subverted, adapted, or reinterpreted at the will of a government or a judge.

But this is not even the real outrage here. It is that a man who has never been elected to anything in his life, ever, but is a long standing mate of the PM, goes around telling us about rights and democracy. Whatever you think of the arguments around an English Parliament it stretches the limits of hypocrisy for an unelected member of a supposedly radical government to lecture us on whether it would be good for democracy or not. Whatever you think of Britain's constitution an unelected fuckwit like Falconer should not be allowed within several million miles of it. The man is an affront to democracy, an old style feudal lord dispensing nuggets of received wisdom and truth to the ignorant masses on behalf of his own liege lord.

Fuck off, Falconer. Nobody wants you.