For the new Government
Whoever heads it and whenever it comes, new priorities emerge. The Health and Safety Act has created a farce and should be repealed and replaced with a simple law of proper maintenance and a reminder that we are all under an obligation to take reasonable care wherever we go and whatever we do.
The Human Rights Act requires trimming so that it does what it is supposed to. It needs also to make clear that violent criminals, terrorists, people who break into other people’s homes and so on are outside its protection.
In the meantime there is the matter of the housewife who waved her cooking knife from her kitchen window at an approaching intruder. She was warned by police that ‘brandishing an offensive weapon’ in her own kitchen was ‘an offence’. Someone high up needs to telephone the Chief Constable of the force concerned.
No incoming government should add a single line to regulate our daily lives until the drivel at present sitting on our statue books is sorted out.