Dicing morality and law

THE EDITOR: In his 2014 Labour Day message, then opposition leader Keith Rowley said all must welcome positive change; labour is critical to development and struggle must never be undertaken with vengeance or apathy; and government’s responsibility is to facilitate synergistic relationships that progress the nation’s successes and growth.

Since then economic realities have outdone that formula. Positive parts have been left far behind in the dust and even if we had vengeance or apathy, it can’t do anything now. Financially we are at that point where the IMF would say, “Fiscal consolidation measures.”

Leave aside cause-and-effect niceties, and the outlook is: low/negative growth, increasing deficits and debt burden, declining reserves, raiding of state enterprise profits and public sector saving schemes, capital flight, devaluation, targeting of social services.

The balance of Government’s agenda reflects inherent bankruptcies, for, in the face of that, we are told old laws can not accommodate new morality.

The Attorney General argues in effect there is no existing law. It is to make all laws purely regulatory under the Prime Minister’s control, or the AG’s, including tax collection via the Revenue Authority, totally undermining the rule of law and the constitution.

Existing laws can accommodate morality very well actually, except for those who dice morality or have no plan or do not put themselves on the line really, or do not fear law – any combination in those.

Policy and vision are so handicapped to where they can’t recognise the morass in the making, let alone lead a way out of it.

E GALY

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