A brief digest from BBC On-Line.
Human Fertilisation & Embryology Bill
Gordon Brown has decided that Labour M.Ps will be able to vote with their consciences, after all. Kind of. Private Eye’s Supreme Leader’ has decreed that his M.Ps can have a free vote for certain elements of the Bill. However, M.Ps will still be expected to vote for the whole Bill when it comes before the Commons. This, to my mind, makes the compromise a rather empty one. the Prime Minister is still an ally of the utilitarian secularists who believe in nothing and will do anything to achieve ‘progress’.
Tougher Sentences for Gun Crime
In its Have Your Say column, the BBC writes,
A top UK police officer says judges don’t always hand out the mandatory five year sentence for carrying a gun. Could tougher sentences be a deterrent?
No, they won’t be. The gallows never stopped murders being committed. Tougher sentences will never stop those who wish to from carrying a gun. We will never solve the problem of crime until we realise that the retributive way of dealing with criminals is not the way forward. They need help. The system should geared towards helping them to be penitential. And if they commit a crime again, they should be helped again. And again.
After sweeping to power in the French Presidential elections last year, Nicolas Sarkozy’s star has fallen of late following gains for the Socialist party in Parliamentary elections. However, he can only be congratulated if he does choose to boycott the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. China does not deserve the Olympics. That they are going there is a disgrace and encouragement to the Communist regime. The counter argument here is that the Games will help China open up. Maybe it will, but I don’t hear anyone say that the Moscow Games helped the Soviet Union to ‘open up’.
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