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Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (5 Feb 2008)

William Cash: Indeed. The red lines have already leaked like a sieve. I am reminded of the story of the hunting of the Snark; in the pursuit of an abstract and completely unknowable objective the colander leaked like a sieve and sank. That is exactly what will happen in this case. I am concerned about the overlap between the European convention on human rights and the charter of fundamental rights as set...

Pensions: Human Rights (19 Feb 2007)

William Cash: ...Nations. We have therefore handed over to the courts at the same time the application of the law in order to ensure that these principles set out in the paper are complied with. It is like the hunting of the snark. The plain fact is that all civil servants and every public authority are under an obligation to give effect to these principles irrespective of their practicality. No wonder all...

Points of Order: Conventions of Parliament (17 Jan 2007)

William Cash: ...Scottish Parliament to legislate could turn out to be extremely contentious. A matter of such huge constitutional importance could turn into a battleground not about a matter as irrelevant as the Hunting Act 2004, important as it was from a social and a countryside point of view, but about whether the Scottish nationalists, if they took control of the Scottish Parliament, could hold a...

Points of Order: European Affairs (14 Jun 2006)

William Cash: ...arguments over the past 20 years— because we need to live in the present. Whatever people's aspirations at the time of Maastricht, that was then and this is now, and this is not the time to hunt the snark without a compass. We need clear objectives. The British Government, the new Foreign Secretary, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Europe, who is very experienced, need to...

Courts Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2003)

Mr William Cash: ...certain friend of hers—she will know what I mean, if nobody else does—played an important role in helping her as the Bill progressed. Others also deserve special mention: the noble Lord Hunt of Wirral, the noble Lord Renton and the noble Viscount Bledisloe. I hope that I have not left anyone out.

Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]: Clause 3 — Consent (11 Mar 2002)

Mr William Cash: ...persuaded to think again. However, I do not think that logic lay at the heart of that conversion. It probably had much more to do with the embarrassment of seeing the Government being harried and hunted like a fox on the question whether the Bill would work at all. I do not believe for a minute that it is possible for the Bill to work in relation to anything other than new developments and...

Rural Community and Farmers (20 Dec 1994)

Mr Bill Cash: .... The House of Lords report said that the issue was considered by some witnesses to be the most pressing of all in rural areas in the United Kingdom. We need to take careful note of that point. Hunting, shooting and fishing are part of the culture and identity of the countryside. Many people associate those pursuits with elitism, but that is not the case. Fishing is one of the most...

Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill (16 Jun 1986)

Mr Bill Cash: ...with the interpretation of Community law, which has a direct bearing on our economy and industry, and when we have a debate which is as important as this one, we have the feeling, rather like the hunting of the Snark, that we are looking for something that hardly exists. In fact, we are debating issues of which the people, our courts and the House of Commons have little knowledge and I...