"Apart from which, if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear."

I don't believe it, I really don't believe it, someone said it and appeared to mean it.....

There is much wrong in the way the travelling community behave - sometimes - but there is much wrong in the way they are treated. It is a traditional way of life under genocidal attack. An irony indeed that the attack comes from Michael Howard.

As usual Martin and Norma get my support.

But I am also worried about the Howard and the Human Rights Act.   It is the whole point of the Human Rights Act that it confers Human RIghts where other laws fail to protect Human Rights.   There do seem to be the occasional cases where odd decisions are made (but this is also true of other areas of law, and the appearance may depend on our being given slanted alleged facts) but to suggest the repeal of the entire Act as a result can only be seen as very repressive. Who, in all seriousness would want to repeal Human Rights? If there had been an effective Human RIghts Act and jurisprudence in Germany in the 30s and up to say 1945, there would have been no holocaust, and the holocaust was wholly in accordance with German Law - because the German law of the time was drafted to achieve its precise objective.

So the victims of the holocaust of course needed to be above the law - because the law was wrong.

Yet Michael Howard believes that the Human Rights Act (which is law) by creating rights makes some people above the law. I think he worries me a lot more than the Human Rights Act does.