Tuesday - November 02, 2010

important day for America and good luck.  Dark day here, another nail in soverignty coffin for uk

Didn’t want to believe the headline that greeted me this morning when I took the paper off the front porch. Gloom. It isn’t just this one voting issue btw.But it does show how extreme the problem is.

The EU has told the govt. here that it must allow prisoners to vote. It says that to deny them that right will open England to law suits, which the Prime Minister says the country just can not afford.  Of course not.  They need the money to spend overseas helping turd worlders overcome their poverty. They need money to fund the members of the European Parliament and all the ancillary feel important offices they hold. And lets not even get into quangos.

Another nail in the sovereignty coffin.

Prisoners will be given the vote in general elections for the first time in 140 years after David Cameron conceded there was nothing he could do to halt a European court ruling demanding the change

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor
Telegraph

For months, the Government’s lawyers have tried to find a way to avoid allowing 70,000 British inmates the right to take part in ballots.

But on Wednesday a representative for the Coalition will tell the Court of Appeal that the law will be changed following legal advice that the taxpayer could have to pay tens of millions of pounds in compensation.

The decision, which brings to an end six years of government attempts to avoid the issue, opens the possibility that even those facing life sentences for very serious crimes could in future shape Britain’s elections.

Ministers are now examining ways that limits could be placed on which inmates can vote. They will push for strict conditions, including a ban on “lifers” and murderers from voting.

In an attempt to limit the political fallout, there is likely to be a push to implement a threshold that would see those serving sentences longer than four years being excluded from voting.

It is understood that judges may be given responsibility for eventually deciding which criminals are allowed to vote when they are sentenced.

Senior government sources said Mr Cameron was “exasperated” and “furious” at having to agree to votes for prisoners, but the threat of costly litigation had forced his hand.

He was told that the Government faced a series of compensation claims from prisoners and potential legal action from the European Union if it did not agree to a change.

see the rest here

Read the rest BMEWS and keep it in mind when you go to the polls today.  Today England ... tomorrow ?????

Posted by peiper     on 11/02/2010 at 10:20 AM   
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