I have just read a complete pile of claptrap written by Peter Oborne in the Telegraph. He must be busy on something else, because he clearly didn't think before he wrote so glowingly of how Britain should be proud of having Abu Qatada in our midst. Not because he isn't a nasty piece of work, Oborne is careful to say, but because it demonstrates how great our system of justice is.
Oborne quotes Churchill and it is here he should have realised his mistake; “We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which… through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus, trial by jury and the English common law,
I think you will find that most of these laws have been superseded by the Code Napoleon via the primacy of EU law, or are otherwise ignored as inconvenient by the government (in particular, the Bill of Rights). We, the people have scant protection in law and are not part of a truly democratic society.
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