Monday 30 January 2012

Contradictingleigh?

Following what is being reported as a 'U-turn' by David Cameron at Brussels today Guido Fawkes reports that the 'Malcontents' are meeting in the office of Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough.


Edward Leigh is obviously against the idea that this country - and he - should be told what to do by any other organisation because writing here, he states:
"This centrality of parliamentary supremacy to the British constitution cannot be over emphasised. The Victorian constitutional scholar A. V. Dicey wrote that Parliament – that is the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons together – has “the right to make or unmake any law whatsoever: and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament."
This of course is the same Edward Leigh who made an impassioned speech in the Council of Europe, just days ago, in support of a resolution that will mean, in the due course of time, the people of this nation lose the right, if they so wish, to end their own lives by "assisted dying".


One rule for MPs and one for us..................

5 comments:

john in cheshire said...

"...the people of this nation lose the right, if they so wish, to end their own lives by "assisted dying"... perhaps Mr Leigh could show us how it's done?

James Higham said...

The death of honour in all its glory.

WitteringsfromWitney said...

jic: If only.........

JH: Very, very true!

IanPJ said...

JiC,
"...the people of this nation lose the right, if they so wish, to end their own lives by "assisted dying"... perhaps Mr Leigh could show us how it's done?

A glass of the finest malt and the service revolver on the table.

WitteringsfromWitney said...

IPJ: why waste bloody good malt? Just give him the bloody gun and make him pay for the bullet beforehand!