I am standing for election as Secretary of Lewisham Deptford Labour Party; I’d like to thank the five branches and two union branches that nominated me.
1 have been fighting for a fairer society, in the Labour Party since 1974, for 42 years, sometime with some influence and sometimes with very little. …
Doing some research on the GDPR and Article 22 says,
The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
Have I won? …
Anthony Barnett in 2010, and again last week,
The device of a referendum is itself, as Stuart Weir has written, an awesome machine that should be handled with respect. Referendums need rules and a context and they need to be preceded by a well-founded debate. That leads to democracy. Otherwise they become populist tools in the hands of manipulative neo-dictators
The two links are to Open Democracy articles. …
I had reason to look up a Martin Luther King quote, I was looking for the content of character phrase,
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
It’s caught on Youtube here…. …
Anthony Barnet writes at Open Democracy, an article called, “The Media Monarchy”, in which he looks at the Law, the Media, contempt and the bullying of the Supreme Court. He finishes by pointing out that our Constitution is the result of centuries of fighting against originally despotic monarchs amd that the new unaccountable, unchallengeable power potentially oppressing citizens is the media and while he doesn’t make much of it, the UK, has the weakest foreign ownership controls on the media. …
The BBC reports that the High Court states that the Government needs Parliament’s permission to trigger the EU’s Article 50 Brexit process. The article is silent on whether Parliament has to express its will as a Law or joint house resolution; I’ll leave the last word to others more qualified, but I don’t think there is any other way to undo previous Parliamentary dispositions other than to pass a new law, which involves four readings and a committee stage in the Commons and the same in the Lords and potentially whatever we call the Conference process to resolve disagreements between the Houses. …
Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that May create 1000 peers to get Article 50 approval through the Lords, he seems to forget that when Lloyd George tried this last time, over 100 years ago, the King refused on the first asking and made him fight a general election which didn’t go so well for him. …
One down, 320 to go. Stephen Phillips has resigned from the House of Commons, actually with Goldsmith also taking a sabbatical the Tory majority is down to 10. …
The High Court states, in the Article 50 hearing, that the Royal Prerogative cannot be used to overturn statute law. …
Tim Roache the General Secretary of the GMB writes about the GMB success in the courts in having Uber’s business model criminalised. The courts state that Uber’s drivers must be treated as employees and not as self-employed contractors.
The GMB and the UK are not the first jurisdiction to go to court. I looked at this last year, and made a storify, …