Reform: A Westminster red herring

I wrote yesterday about Cameron and his big plans for constitutional reform, last night Nick Clegg waded into the fray with even more outlandish suggestions which quite frankly scare the pants off most people who read it.

All this talk of massive reform is frankly a con, a red herring. Discovering that the majority of our 646 MP's have been caught with their fingers in the till does not warrant such massive changes to the way in which this nation works.

Outrage at theiving politicians does not need the kind of reform suggested by Cameron and Clegg to correct. Its a massive red herring to deflect attention, a method of saving their own butts and bringing in a sweeping pro-EU agenda that voters have already rejected, regionalisation. So they are trying to do it on the back of public anger.

What this crisis does warrant is putting our MP's back in the box. Stripping away some of the self serving powers that they have accumulated, putting them on the same level as everyone else, making them subject to the same laws and enforcing that, making them work in an open and honest way, making Westminster completely transparent.

Cameron's talk of moving power to the regions is merely a cover for more EU integration, moving power bases to unelected bodies, quangos and charitable trusts. It does nothing to address the bigger problem of returning lost rights to the public, dismantling the Big Brother state, nor about strengthening the sovereignty of the individual.

I do not want to see 'Power' merely moved to the local level to harass and subjugate the population further. I want to see a massive programme of repeal.

Not a single reform should be allowed to take place until we have repealed the European Communities Act. We need a referendum of EU membership, not just Lisbon, and we need it now. That's the kind of reform we need.

If we want constitutional reform lets have reform, but lets make sure we do it because we want to, in our own time, in our own way, and lets make sure that its our constitution that we are dealing with, not the one dictated by the Lisbon Treaty or because these Party leaders are being told to move it forward by the EU, nor any kind of reform overseen and managed by the EU.

And please remember that with all this talk of written constitutions enshrining rights, if you ever have to ask permission, it not a right, its an entitlement. One which the State believes can be bestowed at its pleasure, rather than yours at birth. The 'right' to demonstrate peacefully outside Parliament is a good example, its been reduced to an entitlement, with police permission.

The State has taken too much power already. Lets start paring that back, pruning away at the powers that the state have never been given, but have merely taken. So before we begin to go down the reformist road, lets have that programme of repeals, lets return the rights, Liberties and freedom to the people first.

Parliament belongs to the people, not the politicians. Time to take it back.

Repeal before Reform.