Politically Correct legislation

Health & Safety Act

The Health & Safety Executive is the PC Brigade's police in the workplace and indeed in the public place. This is the quango that famously told trapeze artists that they had to wear hard hats while performing their act, prosecuted police chiefs for allowing policemen to chase burglars over rooftops and warned the Ambulance Service about the ‘manual handling’ of accident victims by the crews. Whilst in its early years it was a very sensible organisation and was dedicated to the saving of lives in heavy industries, it is now controlled by the PC Brigade and its common sense has long been removed.

Not content with achieving what it was set up for, it now has to find its 4,000+ staff - nearly all of them either inspectors or administrators - something else to do to justify its very existence and to utilise to the full its budget of £281 million. It now abuses its position (as the above examples clearly show) by poking its nose into every aspect of our lives that it thinks it can get away with!

The latest news from the very PC Health & Safety Executive is that all firms must now carry out expensive risk assessments to see whether staff are suffering any stress! While genuine stress must be taken seriously, the condition is so difficult to define and so easy to fake that this diktat amounts to a charter for troublemakers, the workshy and the compensation culture. Last year workers citing stress took more than five million days off work. Stress is now the new bad back and yet modern research on stress has cast severe doubts on whether large numbers of employees really do suffer from it at all. Why anyone bothers to work these days is a total mystery to me.

Human Rights Act

This Act sounds and looks quite sane on the face of it but must be repealed as soon as possible as it is the longstop of political correctness. When all else fails and common sense looks like prevailing then the politically correct (and their chosen minorities) always fall back to "it infringes my human rights". This immediately sets in motion a long drawn out and very expensive legal process which is all paid for by (yes, you guessed it) you the taxpayer causing the legal aid budget to spiral out of control.

This Act also hinders the fight against terrorism, the deportation of illegal immigrants and allows prisoners to sue their prison govenor to get pornography and almost anything else that takes their fancy.

The courts and the Government must set aside their obsession with the rights of their favoured minorities and concentrate on the majority who see their instinctive respect for our institutions stretched to absolute breaking point.

Hunting with Dogs Act

Otherwise know as 'The Revenge for the Miners Act', it outlaws fox hunting. The Labour government convieniently forgot that foxes are a real problem in the countryside and just look at fox hunting as a lot of toffs having fun. So foxes are now shot or poisoned, providing them with a lingering death.

The Firearms (Amendment) Bill

After the Dunblane tragedy in 1996, the possession of handguns in the UK was banned. To what effect?An independent report, Illegal Firearms in the UK, by the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College in London, says that handguns were used in 3,685 offences in 2003 compared with 2,648 in 1997, an increase of 40 per cent. Yet the law is now so restrictive that British Olympic shooting competitors have to go abroad to practice because their weapons are illegal in this country. So as usual, the innocent are greatly inconvenienced but the guilty take no notice at all! The PC Brigade's arch-enemy, the Duke of Edinburgh was not amused when the law was passed. Read what he said here.

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