The Bills

In May of 2025, I set about drafting a set of draft bills capable of stabilising the ailing personal liberties of the modern United Kingdom, along with the economic & demographic death-spiral that Britain finds itself in. This effort is consciously upstream of politics entirely.

My aim was to be the first to do this – thus presenting the possibility that it can be done in Britain's darkest days. The fruits of those endeavours will be published on this page, and encompass:

1. A Bill to Restore The Freedom of Speech
2. A Bonfire of the Quangocracy Bill ("BOQ")
3. A Bill To Reconfigure Britain's Immigration & Nationality Framework ("The British Indigeneity and Nationality Act")
4. A Rolling Mass Legislative Repeal Bill (Encompassing secondary legislation & retained EU legislation)
5. A Bill To Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights
   

Britain, and more pointedly, England, had its constitution rewritten substantially in the period of 1997-Present. Undoing that constitutional rewrite is only part of the mission at hand – we might more properly think of 1997 (just prior to the election of constitutional reformist, Tony Blair) as a legislative safe-state, akin to when one resets a server or reverts a word document back to a previous version (to quote Pete North of The Manifesto Project).

Reverting ourselves to a safe-state is a start, but it is not sufficient. Any such venture must be a forward-thinking one, concerned with build a national situation that is preferable to the one we find ourselves in. The means of doing this will be legislative – I say this as I do not entertain revolutionary sentiments. The legislative approach has been referred to as a Great Repeal Act and Great Restoration Act, terms widely attributed to Dr David Starkey (though now used, or flirted with, by people ranging from Robert Jenrick, by way of Gawain Towler, to Rupert Lowe).

What is clear is a desire to be restored to the position we were in before harm was done – which on an individual level, is a core principle of common law negligence. In latin, Restitutio ad integrum. This is required on a national and constitutional scale, and negligence is a valid term to describe what Britain, and her people, have endured.

Others take the view that it will take one act. I take the view this will require multiple acts, and, that they must be implemented as discussed here. Such a plan must appreciate game theory, and learn from political precedents; that includes what was done to the Englishman during Lockdown, how Tony Blair set about his programme of constitutional reform and crucially how to thwart the lawfare that is endemic to British politics, and best exemplified by Miller No.1 and No.2 judicial reviews (of invocation of Article 50 after Britain's vote to exit the EU, and Boris Johnson's prorogation of parliament respectively).

As necessary as they are, I do not see the likelihood of these bills being passed within the timescale required to salvage Britain from a state of inexorable decline, as discussed here by Paul Weston, and here, by Charlie Cole.

For that reason these draft bills will sit, upstream of politics, as a monument to what is possible, if the political will were present.