Case Withdrawn
Friday, January 19th, 2007It’s all officially over.
The case has been withdrawn - a victim of Labour’s egregious retrospective legislation. My legal advice says that there is no chance that the case can succeed since October’s hurried retrospective legislation legalised all Parliamentary Service spending for the year in question.
My initial premise, when I filed the case in June, was that a constitutionally limited government was not above the law. What this case has done is disprove that. There are no limits. The government is above the law. We are entirely reliant on the character of the people who populate Parliament. And if that thought doesn’t momentarily lower the temperature of your blood, it should.