Following Gordon Brown's announcement today that he wished to introduce a Bill of Rights for the British people, the excellent Bishop Hill blog has beat him to it, and done it for him.

The Bill of Rights 2007

 

1. Preamble

2. Self-ownership

Each
individual owns themself and the product of their labour. No
unreasonable seizures of property are permitted without just
compensation.

3. Freedom of speech and of the media

No law or regulation is permitted that restricts the right to freedom of speech or limits the freedom of the media.

4. Freedom of association and of assembly

No
law or regulation is permitted that restricts the right of the people
to free association or restricts the right to peaceful assembly and
protest.

5. Freedom of religion

No law or regulation is permitted that restricts the freedom of religious belief and practice.

6. Right to a fair trial

Assumption of innocence
Jury
Confront accusers
Challenge evidence
Right of appeal
Legal counsel
Double jeopardy
Due process 

7. Imprisonment and Habeus Corpus

The Habeus Corpus Acts shall be considered to form a part of this bill. 

8. Searches

No
officer of the state may enter an individual's private property or
otherwise intrude upon their privacy without their permission or a
warrant authorised by a judge on the presentation of persuasive
evidence. 

9. The right to self-defence

No law is permitted which infringes the right to self-defence. 

10. Retrospective legislation

No law is permitted which has retrospective effect.

11. Freedom of information

Except
for such restrictions as are necessary for security or privacy
purposes, all information created or held by the government will be
freely available to the people. 

12. Other rights not specifically enumerated

All rights not specifically enumerated shall be considered as forming part of this bill. 

13. Bill of Rights 1689

Nothing in this Bill should be construed as amending or repealing any part of the Bill of Rights 1689.

(Bill of Rights 1689)

Give Government back to the people.

Gordon Brown is lying to the British public – with the blessing of the EU.

The new European Union treaty
will mean “transfers of sovereignty” from Britain and Gordon Brown is
right to hide the fact from the public
, an EU leader admitted yesterday to the Telegraph.

Jean-Claude
Juncker, Luxembourg's premier and leader of the bloc of 13 single
currency members, spoke out as the Prime Minister faced rising calls
for a referendum on the treaty drawn up following the rejection of the
old EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005.

Mr Juncker said he supported public debate on the treaty – except in Britain.

“I am astonished at those who are afraid of the
people: one can always explain that what is in the interest of Europe
is in the interests of our countries,” he told Belgian newspaper Le
Soir.

“Britain is different. Of course there will
be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the
attention of public opinion to this fact?”

Mr
Juncker, a supporter of a United States of Europe, described the June
23 deal signed by Tony Blair as an “objective success” for friends of
the EU constitution.

“There is a single legal personality for the EU, the primacy of
European law, a new architecture for foreign and security policy, there
is an enormous extension in the fields of the EU's powers, there is
Charter of Fundamental Rights,” he said, listing elements of the old
constitution in the proposed treaty.

See the rest of the Telegraph story.

EUROPE IS SCARED OF BRITAIN, so much so that it needs our leaders to lie to the public. It is necessary for Europe to destroy Britain, it is necessary for them to split up the United Kingdom, and then eradicate England by dividing it into 9 regions

England no longer exists as far as government is concerned. Today in his commons statement Brown repeatedly referred to it as:
The regions and the other nations that make up our country.

Even though the voters said NO to regional government, they have done it anyway.

That is why Brown has to re-define what it is to be British, the NuLab version of British, not the traditional one. Rewriting history, the way Europe see us, not the way we are.

Europe knows that Britain is the only country capable of fighting to preserve its freedom, so they must destroy it. It is effectively a declaration of war against Britain, one that we thought we had finished in 1945.

Britain needs to wake up, to take on these European thugs and to tell Brown that WE DEMAND A REFERENDUM on the Treaty.

We know that Brown is thinking of bringing the Euro back into the debate, thinking that this will deflect attention from the Treaty (Brown must hold a referendum before he can give up the Pound for the Euro), and the trick of 'giving up the Royal prerogative' and giving the decision over the treaty to Parliament wont wash either. By letting Parliament decide on the European Constitution Treaty, where Brown has a majority, it avoids the need for the referendum and he can blame others for the decision.

Brown – WE DEMAND A REFERENDUM on the Treaty.

Anything less is TREASON.

Gordon Brown is lying to the British public – with the blessing of the EU.

The new European Union treaty
will mean “transfers of sovereignty” from Britain and Gordon Brown is
right to hide the fact from the public
, an EU leader admitted yesterday to the Telegraph.

Jean-Claude
Juncker, Luxembourg's premier and leader of the bloc of 13 single
currency members, spoke out as the Prime Minister faced rising calls
for a referendum on the treaty drawn up following the rejection of the
old EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005.

Mr Juncker said he supported public debate on the treaty – except in Britain.

“I am astonished at those who are afraid of the
people: one can always explain that what is in the interest of Europe
is in the interests of our countries,” he told Belgian newspaper Le
Soir.

“Britain is different. Of course there will
be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the
attention of public opinion to this fact?”

Mr
Juncker, a supporter of a United States of Europe, described the June
23 deal signed by Tony Blair as an “objective success” for friends of
the EU constitution.

“There is a single legal personality for the EU, the primacy of
European law, a new architecture for foreign and security policy, there
is an enormous extension in the fields of the EU's powers, there is
Charter of Fundamental Rights,” he said, listing elements of the old
constitution in the proposed treaty.

See the rest of the Telegraph story.

EUROPE IS SCARED OF BRITAIN, so much so that it needs our leaders to lie to the public. It is necessary for Europe to destroy Britain, it is necessary for them to split up the United Kingdom, and then eradicate England by dividing it into 9 regions

England no longer exists as far as government is concerned. Today in his commons statement Brown repeatedly referred to it as:
The regions and the other nations that make up our country.

Even though the voters said NO to regional government, they have done it anyway.

That is why Brown has to re-define what it is to be British, the NuLab version of British, not the traditional one. Rewriting history, the way Europe see us, not the way we are.

Europe knows that Britain is the only country capable of fighting to preserve its freedom, so they must destroy it. It is effectively a declaration of war against Britain, one that we thought we had finished in 1945.

Britain needs to wake up, to take on these European thugs and to tell Brown that WE DEMAND A REFERENDUM on the Treaty.

We know that Brown is thinking of bringing the Euro back into the debate, thinking that this will deflect attention from the Treaty (Brown must hold a referendum before he can give up the Pound for the Euro), and the trick of 'giving up the Royal prerogative' and giving the decision over the treaty to Parliament wont wash either. By letting Parliament decide on the European Constitution Treaty, where Brown has a majority, it avoids the need for the referendum and he can blame others for the decision.

Brown – WE DEMAND A REFERENDUM on the Treaty.

Anything less is TREASON.

Gordon Brown is lying to the British public – with the blessing of the EU.

The new European Union treaty
will mean “transfers of sovereignty” from Britain and Gordon Brown is
right to hide the fact from the public
, an EU leader admitted yesterday to the Telegraph.

Jean-Claude
Juncker, Luxembourg's premier and leader of the bloc of 13 single
currency members, spoke out as the Prime Minister faced rising calls
for a referendum on the treaty drawn up following the rejection of the
old EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005.

Mr Juncker said he supported public debate on the treaty – except in Britain.

“I am astonished at those who are afraid of the
people: one can always explain that what is in the interest of Europe
is in the interests of our countries,” he told Belgian newspaper Le
Soir.

“Britain is different. Of course there will
be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the
attention of public opinion to this fact?”

Mr
Juncker, a supporter of a United States of Europe, described the June
23 deal signed by Tony Blair as an “objective success” for friends of
the EU constitution.

“There is a single legal personality for the EU, the primacy of
European law, a new architecture for foreign and security policy, there
is an enormous extension in the fields of the EU's powers, there is
Charter of Fundamental Rights,” he said, listing elements of the old
constitution in the proposed treaty.

See the rest of the Telegraph story.

EUROPE IS SCARED OF BRITAIN, so much so that it needs our leaders to lie to the public. It is necessary for Europe to destroy Britain, it is necessary for them to split up the United Kingdom, and then eradicate England by dividing it into 9 regions

England no longer exists as far as government is concerned. Today in his commons statement Brown repeatedly referred to it as:
The regions and the other nations that make up our country.

Even though the voters said NO to regional government, they have done it anyway.

That is why Brown has to re-define what it is to be British, the NuLab version of British, not the traditional one. Rewriting history, the way Europe see us, not the way we are.

Europe knows that Britain is the only country capable of fighting to preserve its freedom, so they must destroy it. It is effectively a declaration of war against Britain, one that we thought we had finished in 1945.

Britain needs to wake up, to take on these European thugs and to tell Brown that WE DEMAND A REFERENDUM on the Treaty.

We know that Brown is thinking of bringing the Euro back into the debate, thinking that this will deflect attention from the Treaty (Brown must hold a referendum before he can give up the Pound for the Euro), and the trick of 'giving up the Royal prerogative' and giving the decision over the treaty to Parliament wont wash either. By letting Parliament decide on the European Constitution Treaty, where Brown has a majority, it avoids the need for the referendum and he can blame others for the decision.

Brown – WE DEMAND A REFERENDUM on the Treaty.

Anything less is TREASON.

The bill, The
Government Spending (Website) Bill 2006-07
, is designed to force Treasury and Departments
to place in a single database all expenditure with explanation 30 days after
the money has been spent.  

It originated in the House of Lords in December 06 raised by
Baroness Oakes as a private members bill, and is now being led by Conservative
MP David Gauke. It would require the Treasury to create a government
expenditure website, as well as giving the government the power to extend it to
other public sector bodies, but the government believes it would cost too much.

Debating the issue in Parliament on 29
June 2007
, Gauke said that the information should be made more
easily accessible to improve transparency and enable people to engage in
important public debates. “What better way of providing information is
there than putting the details of public expenditure on to a single website, where
people can study it and follow the money to see how government spending is
done?” he said. 

Comparing the site to a US
initiative currently under way, whereby any federal expenditure in excess of
$25,000 must be recorded and the details made available on a website accessible
by the public, Gauke admitted that cost would be a key concern. However, he
suggested that such a site could yield savings by reducing the number of
freedom of information requests and parliamentary questions.

“More substantially, given the greater scrutiny for
which the bill provides, we would get better value for money,” added
Gauke. “Some of the most egregious examples of government waste would be
reduced because of the pressure that transparency would bring to bear on the
government and the civil service.” 

Responding for the government, Cabinet Office minister
Gillian Merron said the bill was unrealistic on the grounds of cost. Outlining
the amount of public spending data already available through various websites,
she said that “work is already under way in the Treasury to expand further
the quantity of expenditure information on the public website, as well as to
restructure the information to make it easier to navigate and search”.

She added that the bill was in contradiction to Sir David
Varney's review of public service delivery, which was published in December
last year. Quoting from the report, she said it recommends: “a freeze on
the development of new websites providing citizens or business e-services
created by departments, agencies and non-department public bodies”. 

Labour MP Andrew Miller said that the big cost was not
building the tool but flowing data into it. “That could only be made
feasible through a great deal more integration between operating systems in
government departments, whereby information from different systems could be
integrated at the press of a button,” he said.

“That would take a leap of faith on the part of
opposition parties, all of which expressed concern, reservations and opposition
to the centralising of data as envisaged in the Transformational Government
white paper.” 

Conservative MP Robert Goodwill said the bill was a “no
brainer” and that by placing the information into the public domain via
the single website, citizens would do “the hard work of finding out what
they want to know”. (source)

The decision to progress the bill has been deferred to the next sitting on 19 October
with the government’s view having changed little since January
when I last wrote about this Bill.

So a database to make government accountable = too expensive
A database (NIR) to manipulate the population with = no
matter what the cost.

Anything to stop you really seeing what they spending…..figures are currently published for public consumption approximately 2 years after the expenditure, after being heavily sanitised. 


NuLab – Destroying Britain
from the inside out.