Dump the Privy Council
When I, a New
Zealand citizen, enter Britain via Heathrow or Gatwick airports, I face a usual
60 to 90-minute wait in the immigration queue made up of Poles, Latvians,
Iranians, Senegalese, Australians and other aliens. My wife, holding a British
passport, sallies forth with no delay alongside Germans, Dutch, French and
other European Union passport- holders.
There is no such thing as
priority for citizens of so-called Commonwealth countries, so why should I and
fellow New Zealanders be dictated to in legal terms by the British and
Commonwealth woofs who make up the Privy Council, a body of officials
originally appointed by the English sovereign to carry on the everyday
government of that land.
If your country hasn’t matured
enough in 161 years to administer it’s own justice, even if based on English
precedents, then God defend New Zealand.