Finally! UN Human Rights Council Finds Someone More Worthy Of Condemnation Than Israel: The Queen Of England

Good to see they haven't lost their laser-like focus on what matters:

Britain is dismissing the idea of holding a referendum on whether it should ditch the monarchy in favor of a written constitution.

The UN Human Rights Council offers the suggestion as part of a review of Britain's rights record. Britain is one of few democracies with no constitution laying out a bill of citizens' rights. But Britain says in a statement Tuesday there is no popular demand for a vote on a written constitution. It says Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government considers the queen vital to Britain's unity, and supports keeping her as head of state.

And it looks like the US is now no longer alone in thinking that money given to the UN is being wasted:

In return for the £69 million British taxpayers send to the United Nations every year, we should be able to expect that humanitarian crises in Zimbabwe, Sudan, North Korea, Iran and Somalia leave little time for interfering in our own constitutional affairs. Many members of the commission – such as China, Saudi Arabia and Cuba – should pay a little more attention to their own human rights record. Unfortunately, the United Nations Human Rights Council thinks these issues aren’t quite pressing enough to preclude meddling in an advanced democracy with a globally admired way of settling constitutional issues. Next time the United Nations comes begging for more support we should remember this insulting waste of money.

Is it too much to hope that other countries might take notice--before the UN Human Rights Council comes knocking on their door.

[Hat tip: The Corner]

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