Vampire Jack At The Liberties Blood Bank

'Nice cup of blood, missus.'

Jack Straw, Defender of Liberties and Architect of the RIP Act (Civil Liberties and Privacy Abolition Act) 2000, wants to 'rebalance' the Human Rights Act.

Cameron has added his pennyworth.

Our Jack's a bit 'frustrated' apparently, about the way courts sometimes interpret the Act. Which is strange, considering a) the Act was introduced under Labour b) Labour have been in power for 11 years (plenty of time to get something right, don't you think?), c) the government tell judges what sentences they can pass and d) Jack Straw has Home Secretary at the time of the Act.

The Mail's article is more detailed than the Guardian's (link above) and shows Straw swiping at everything from ambulance-chasing lawyers to the increase in workplace litigation and undeportable terrorists. Much of what he complains about is of his own doing.

Straw is worried about the 'drift to a law of privacy' - which would, of course, go against his government's remorseless attempts to strip citizens of all privacy in front of the state.

He's also keen to produce a 'Bill of Rights and Responsibilities'. It's that last bit that gives the game away. Our responsibilities to the state is what he means, although he dresses it up in patriotic language. There won't be anything in it (if it ever comes into being) about the responsibilities of members of the state apparatus to us.

I can tell Mr Straw that my responsibilities as a citizen are simply not to break the law (and Labour have added many of those over the last decade). Beyond that, the government can go intercourse itself.

I have no responsibility to fulfil any state jackass's requirements to be a good or 'productive' citizen and no one has the right to impose such a sanction upon me.

No one has the right to judge the level of my patriotism (and by the way, Mr Straw, my loyalty is to my country, not to the state - and certainly not to you or your government). As a result of your connivance and collusion, Mr Straw, that country now not only has no sovereignty, having surroundered that to the EU, but is also being broken up into regions by the EU.

So, what's this all about? Anything to do with the European Court's judgement against British police keeping innocent people's DNA, perhaps? Or the fact that there's going to be an election in the next year and Labour need to appeal to as much of the mob as possible?

Or possibly that our Jack is losing his marbles and wants more blood in the form of our rights for sacrifice?

You can bring a vampire to a bath of blood and he will surely drink his fill.