"Parliament, Not The Courts"

Yes, the Prime Minister really did say that. He has, it would appear, no concept of the fact that he sits in the High Court of Parliament. He is therefore incapable of reasserting that Court's supremacy over the lesser ones through encroachments on its privileged speech, through subjugation to the EU or the ECHR, through attempts to subvert the supremacy of the Statute Law over the Common Law, and so forth.

So he will never bring forward the urgently necessary legislation to disapply any ruling of the European Court of Justice, or of the European Court of Human Rights, or of the "Supreme Court" unless and until ratified by a resolution of the House of Commons, itself elected by a system more representative of public opinion, with the general electorate having the decisive say in the selection of party candidates no less than in choosing among them and others.

On the presenting issue of privacy, if the current judicially imposed arrangement on privacy were enacted into the statute law, but with the burden of proof in libel actions placed on the plaintiff, then who could object to that? And why? Making the privacy law statutory as the price of reversing the burden of proof in libel actions. That would be the deal. The corporate media cannot expect their own way all the time. As for freedom of information, repeal the Official Secrets Acts. Just do it.

David Cameron won't. He wouldn't know where or how to begin.