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Super Injunction Fever

‘Super Injunction'fever has hit Britain and the latest celebrity to be caught in the middle of it technically can’t be mentioned because despite the injunction being broken in parliament, the high court has upheld it. The person in question is a well known footballer and it is alleged he had an ‘away game'with an ex-Big Brother contestant – Imogen Thomas who will probably bank on the notoriety the case has given her and end up on a designer homeware show as a presenter.

What makes this whole saga interesting is that the MP who ‘revealed'the identity of the footballer in parliament did so using an act of ‘Parliamentary Privilege’. John Hemming is a Lib Dem MP and has denied that he abused his right of privilege by identifying the footballer. A lot of questions are now being asked about whether or not this obscure right should be reviewed by the courts as if MPs can flout laws with impunity then it undermines the whole system of law and order. The story itself is tabloid worthy, but hardly in the public interest for the footballer to be revealed.

That said the incident has forced David Cameron to admit that power to grant super injunctions to protect privacy should be reviewed. This stems from the fact that it is difficult to enforce an injunction that has been effectively broken by over 70,000 people in the UK. The wider implication is that parliament has shown the British public that it is okay to break the law by elevating itself above the very laws it creates to govern the country.

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Lib Dems Crushed

The results from the local elections are in, Liberal Democrats have lost 295 councillors, Labour has gained 339 and what is a surprising bit of information; the Conservative Party has gained 37 councillors. The Liberal Democrats were punished the hardest for the current government, because unlike David Cameron who the Conservative voters knew what to expect, Nick Clegg basically did a massive u-turn on fundamental party policies. The Conservatives are delighted that they have made it into a government, with a minority of the MPs and are able to fundamentally shift policies without a popular mandate. The Liberal Democrats on the other hand, were lied to by their leader and the people are asking what are the benefits of supporting this government when their core aims are not being recognized. If you watch the interviews with William Hague, you see somebody gloating. While the government is cutting services, forging ahead with NHS changes which are unwanted and they don’t see this as Paternity Testing for unwanted policy but as a victory for their views.
The results for the Alternate Vote referendum won’t even begin to be counted until this afternoon, but early polls indicate that there is not going to be a popular mandate for voting reform. This will be largely due to the vociferous ’no'campaign which is a ’e tu brutus'stab in the back from David Cameron to Nick Clegg. The only explanation that I can come up with is that Nick Clegg is actually a mole for the conservative party.

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