tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066105055768088299.post1883590997429293286..comments2023-10-30T11:42:45.966+00:00Comments on Mary Honeyball MEP: A PATRIOTIC WEEKENDMary Honeyballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00981857726691650802noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066105055768088299.post-26720184005642031832008-11-11T08:02:00.000+00:002008-11-11T08:02:00.000+00:00Mary, this is just embarassing. We've had eleven y...Mary, this is just embarassing. We've had eleven years of relentless reforms. We've had devolution. We've had the botched reform of the house of Lords which has nevertheless delivered a House more representative than the European Parliament and one that can hold itself up to the lobby fodder in the commons. We've had the system of appointing people like yourself to the European Parliament. We've had minimal freedom of information, crazy-mad terrorism legislation, and now we face ID card legislation even more illiberal than the restrictions on internet privacy Charles Clarke ordered you to vote for a few years ago.<BR/><BR/>Now, you've gone and seen a gold play-carriage and you've decided that something needs to be reformed and dragged into the twentieth century? Funny as letting you believe that we still are in the 1900s--as in that episode of the American Office where Jim convinces Dwight it's Friday, not Thursday--I just can't resist commenting.<BR/><BR/>The government here is planning to burn five billion pounds of money on ID enrolment centres housed under the wing of big monopolistic supermarket corporations whilst courts issue an order allowing people to die or allowing doctors to kill every other month.<BR/><BR/>For goodness' sake, use your position to draw attention to all this before everyone with any sense and any money left leaves the country.Martin Meenaghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092121503713511010noreply@blogger.com