Shameless Shami’s contempt for democracy

SO NOW we know. Yuman rites is more important than democracy. The verdict has been handed down by no less an authority than Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, the Corbyn stooge elevated to the Lords as a reward for absolving Labour of anti-Semitism.

Shameless Shami made her unilateral declaration on radio 4’s Today programme yesterday. Henceforth, where the will of the people expressed at the ballot box conflicts with the sacred values of the Great and Good, the values of the Great and Good must prevail.

Her pronouncement came with an ultimatum that Northern Ireland should immediately follow the republic in legalising abortion — despite the duly elected assembly in Belfast voting the opposite way as recently as February 2016.

She insisted Theresa May, as a ‘self-identifying feminist’, should take advantage of the current power vacuum in Ulster to impose abortion rights in the Province. When interviewer John Humphrys pointed out the inconvenient truth that no party in Northern Ireland had stood for election on a manifesto which proposed legalisation of abortion on demand, Shameless became indignant.

‘ You can’t have democracy without fundamental human rights,’ she insisted, in the authentic, hectoring voice of one who ‘self-identifies’ as a ‘liberal’.

She doesn’t even want to grant the people of Northern Ireland a say in the matter by holding a referendum, as they did south of the border. Nope, the law must be consistent across the ‘island of Ireland’. Why? Because Shami says so, that’s why.

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mind the fact that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and abortion is a devolved power.

The whole point of devolution, which is generally supported by self-identifying liberals, is that laws can be varied to suit the purposes of the people and legislatures of the kingdom’s component parts. But not, obviously, if they contradict the prevailing wisdom of the liberal ‘elite’.

Shami, who no one has ever voted for, doesn’t want a referendum in Northern Ireland because there may still be a majority of people who are likely to vote against full legalisation.

OK, so the people of the Irish republic voted overwhelmingly in favour of abortion. But you can’t rely on those backward bigots north of the border to do the right thing. They’re even propping up the ghastly Tories, denying Jeremy his rightful place in Downing Street. Best not to ask them in the first place.

That’s the problem with referendums. Sometimes they deliver the ‘wrong’ result. Just look at what happened over Brexit. The likes of Shameless Chakrabarti are all in favour of referendums when the outcome reinforces their own prejudices. Less so, however, when the great unwashed display a little unwelcome independence.

Thus, the vote to leave the eU must be overturned at all costs. So, too, the vote against Scottish independence. That hasn’t stopped Wee Burney wheeling out over the weekend yet another plan to break away from the UK.

But the result of the abortion referendum in the Irish republic has been hailed as an historic triumph for democracy by many of the same people who were appalled when the Irish electorate voted against the eU’s Lisbon Treaty in 2008. On that occasion, the Irish were condemned as thick, racist bog-trotters and were forced to vote again so they could produce the ‘right’ answer.

That’s now the favoured tactic of remoaners here, if they can’t stop Brexit by parliamentary means.

For the record, I support abortion rights and approve of relaxing the law in Northern Ireland. But I appreciate it is an emotive subject, with strong beliefs on both sides.

So while the Irish referendum result is welcome, I found the near hysterical reaction to it pretty nauseating — as have been the attempts by British politicians to capitalise upon it to further their own agenda, whether that involves trying to embarrass Theresa May or battering the people Northern Ireland.

The posturing, pipsqueak Irish Prime Minister was close to tears. Supporters of the legalisation campaign were ecstatic, cheering and hugging, waving their banners. It was more like ve Day than the announcement of a decision on such a sombre subject as terminating pregnancy.

Wherever you stand in the debate, there’s no dispute that abortion involves ending a human life, even in embryo, and deserves to be treated with the utmost dignity. But this was politics for the Twittersnapgram generation. everybody had to be in the movie. Look at me, me, me!

It reminded me most of the day Michael Jackson died, when dozens of dopey birds and some of the more flamboyant Friends of Dorothy turned up outside the HMv store in Oxford Street and started dancing in the street, singing along to a selection of Wacko Jacko’s greatest hits.

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of them didn’t even know the words. Bobby Jean, you’re not my mum! But that was beside the point. They had to be there, emoting, and being seen to emote.

as for media tart Shami, I suppose it was inevitable she’d find some way of getting in on the abortion act. Funny, though, I don’t remember her getting quite so animated when a bakery in Northern Ireland was prosecuted not so long ago for refusing to bake a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage because it was contrary to their religion.

Surely that, too, in a proper democracy should be a question of individual choice, even if you disagreed with the bakers’ decision. Why should anyone be forced to bake a cake promoting something which is against their beliefs?

That’s the problem with self- identifying liberals. as Baroness Shameless has now made perfectly plain, their idea of democracy means the rest of us doing what they say, regardless of what we might believe.

Their concept of universal yuman rites doesn’t apply to anyone or anything of which they disapprove. and they only respect the results of referendums that go their way.

NEWCASTLE is building a giant ferris wheel, bigger than the London Eye. Inevitably, it has already been nicknamed by Geordies ‘The Why Aye’. They can do better than that. How about paying tribute to the Likely Lads and calling it ‘Bob Ferris’.