| To have a Bill of Rights would conflict many Tory ideas - a Bill of Rights would have to be entrenched above Government thus would involve some sort of written constitution somewhere..which is un-conservative in nature. Also it would be against the current British constitution as it would bind any successive parliaments.
I understand David is quite paternilist and realise this does date back to the days of Disrali and the whole One Nation tory idea, but still in terms of modern conservative - David is going back quite a way and doing a very Blarist thing by picking different policies from everywhere - the third way or whatever. Totally removing the relevance of a polictal spectrum and thus not making him conservative or if he is a new type of conservative we havent seen before. But also maybe we have seen this before wanting to remove the HRA is nothing new.. |