Children are Children. Until it Suits...

Back in 2023 the Conservative government removed the right of children under 18 to get married even with parental consent. 

Quietly, without much fanfare from the media.

Government decided it was a discrepancy that for most purposes, anyone under 18 should be classed as a child. Most other primary legislation enacted in the past few decades treated under 18s as kids.

So, no smoking, no drinking, no sex, no marriage. Adult life started at 18 as far as the government was concerned.

Until now.

Today, the government announced it would reduce the voting age to 16. So an under 18 doesn't have the capability to consent to sex, marriage, or to make an informed decision to shorten their life with drinks or fags.

But according to the government today, an under 18 can decide which political party to vote for. Because it suits. It suits the government because they think younger people will vote Labour. It's jerrymandering. 

Except.....

The Reform party is now the popular political party of under 18s thanks to their social media successes. 

Labour's plan to hold onto power may well backfire, spectacularly.

Afghan Importation and the Super-Injunction.

I first heard whispers about the unmarked aircraft arriving into the UK some time at the beginning of last year. Sadly it coincided with the death of my mother, so there wasn't much I could do to explore the phenomena.

I kind of forgot about it, just passing it off as yet another one of those things that happens. It was so long ago I've kind of forgotten if there was mention of any injunction. But to be honest, if we are saving Afghan interpreters that have helped our military and their families, we kind of owe a debt to them. I wasn't that bothered, and let it lie. 

It's sort of on the same level as allowing people from Hong Kong to enter the UK (after massive scrutiny to weed out Chinese Communist spies, of course).

I'm sure that the Afghans will understand the opportunity afforded them by the UK and make the best use of it. Their girls will have a better life and hopefully being on a UK military base and rubbing shoulders with ordinary UK squaddies will have given them an inkling of what potential there is here.

I have less tolerance towards illegal immigrants who have never contributed anything towards the UK, it's allies or it's military.

But, 6 (or 7) Billion pounds? really? Compare that to the amount of money expended towards helping house homeless UK squaddies and their families. Yeah.

That's really all I've got to say on the matter. 

The End of TV Personalities.

The Masterchef debacle shows that the age of human Television personalities is almost at an end.

Humans have faults, they may have said something in the past, done something in the past, that someone here, in the present finds offensive or objectionable.

The things is, if you look in everyone's past, there will be something, some closet Karen finds offensive. And to be brutal, I would have thought the intention of the offense laws was to deal with offense now, not decades in the past.

But here we are. Because the offense laws are not clearly defined, and don't have sensible limitations, we get to this point.

Someone says something in the past and somebody who wasn't even born back then so couldn't ever take offense at the time, can claim offense now, five, ten or twenty years later. 

It's now only a matter of time before we have North-Korean style TV presenters reading tightly from a script, fearing the most basic mis-quote. 

In the end, I bet TV execs can't get to Artificial Intelligence generated TV presenters. No humans allowed. No baggage, no history, no humanity. No problems.

This is why we need the huge reset I mentioned oh, 5 years ago or more. We need a bonfire of the leftist, globalist nonsensical legislation begun by Blair. Legislation so poorly drafted, so vague, so woolly, that it can be used as a catch-all. 

How can anti-terror legislation be used against journalists? Where is the justification? The legislation should have been clearly defined as to what constitutes terroristic activity, to justify arrest under those laws. Without justification everyone becomes a terrorist at risk of arrest under those laws.

But instead lazy legislators failed to include clear definitions, so anyone that writes articles against the government risks being stopped at the airport arrested and interviewed without the right of silence under anti-terror laws. When they have not committed any terrorist acts, have not planned them, supported them, or committed any precursor acts either. Just written articles in newspapers or the internet.

The same with the malicious communications act. What was supposed to stop heavy breathing calls is now being used to stifle free speech on the internet. 

Common sense has been thrown aside and lawyers cherry-pick legislation and manipulate the wording to grossly expand it's authority over what was intended.

The Supreme Court needs to be disbanded. No court should have legal power over a democratically elected government. By all means have the judges in the house of Lords, as it was back in the early Nineties, advising and tweaking legislation. But not the brick wall of the Supreme Court where the biases and mores of the Judges gets to override the wishes of the people.

Burn it all I say. All the laws enacted since Blair need to go and a sensible set of legislation, crafted with care with clear definition needs to be put in it's place.