{"id":391,"date":"2010-01-10T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=391"},"modified":"2010-01-10T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T18:53:33","slug":"391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the new Government<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whoever heads it and whenever it comes,\u00a0 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 The Health and Safety Act has created a farce and should be repealed and replaced with a simple law of proper maintenance and a reminder that we are all under an obligation to take reasonable care wherever we go and whatever we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.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Act requires trimming so that it does what it is supposed to. It needs also to make clear that violent\u00a0criminals, terrorists, people who break into other people&#8217;s homes and so on are outside its protection.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime there is the matter of the housewife who waved\u00a0her\u00a0 cooking knife from her kitchen window at an approaching intruder. She was warned by police that &#8216;brandishing\u00a0 an offensive weapon&#8217; in her own kitchen was &#8216;an offence&#8217;. Someone high up needs to telephone the Chief Constable of the force concerned.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the new Government Whoever heads it and whenever it comes,\u00a0 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 The Health and Safety Act has created a farce and should be repealed and replaced with a simple law of proper maintenance and a reminder that we are all under an obligation to take reasonable care wherever we go and whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}