The Conservative government wants to restore the balance between rights and responsibilities in UK law. Here are a few suggestions for a citizen’s responsibilities;
- do not go running off to the European Court of Justice, because the UK parliament is always sovereign (if not always fair – MPs can be convicts (e.g. Bobby Sands), but convicts can’t be voters?)
- accept the first past the post voting system (so the SNP has 56 MPs with 1.5 million votes and the Green Party has 1 MP with 1.1 million votes)
- accept a taxation system that allows ‘non-domiciled’ to mean rich and living in the UK, but not paying taxes, because at some point in the future they may live where their ancestors came from (or not)
- take responsibility for private banks’ debts, because bailing them out and watching their profits climb back into the billions makes economic sense
- do not seek legal aid, because the government cannot afford to make justice available to poor people – good luck with representing yourself (res ipsa loquitur notwithstanding)
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