No sooner do you get rid of a bloated, misguided organisation like the EU than another one comes along – in this case the United Nations.
As we reported earlier, the UN jumped the shark by attacking Britain’s austerity measures and branding them a human rights violation.
Here are some other times the world’s moral arbiters felt compelled to intervene:
In 2014, UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo arrived to Britain on a fact-finding mission to prove rampant sexist culture in the country.
What she found was, apparently, the worst sexism on the entire planet.
Mrs. Munjoo declared there was a “boys’ club sexist culture” that led to women being objectified.
As evidence, the UN official stressed the “easy availability” of porn, harassment of women in social media, wolf-whistling – and also took aim at the mainstream media, most likely veiled swipes at The Sun.
In her analysis she seemed not to forget that, unlike in countries like Saudi Arabia, women are fully enfranchised, have equal rights and are not banned from driving.
Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden, but has spent the past four years or so hiding from justice in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Despite the fact that he went there of his own free will, and can leave whenever he wants (at which point he will be arrested, but still) – UN busybodies decided he had been “arbitrarily detained” and deserved compensation.
The claim was met with widespread derision – and, of course, achieved nothing.
Francois Crepeau, UN special rapporteur on migrant rights, claimed the idea immigrants threaten British culture was “fantasy”, despite widespread public concern.
He said: “The fantasy is that there is a core British culture that was created probably 2,000 years ago and carried on.
“And now it’s being threatened by all those barbarians that are coming to our gate.
“This is utter b******t, but who is going to say this?”
Raquel Rolnik, the UN’s shrill Special Rapporteur on housing, left her native Brazil, coated with poverty-stricken slums, to take a swipe at British public housing.
The expert, however, turned out to have a controversial background as washed up Marxist member of Brazil’s Workers’ Party, who believed the Cuban Communist Party as their closest ally.
In the UN report, she claimed that asking people in social housing to pay more rent if they have a spare bedroom was a violation of human rights and urged the government to scrap the policy.
The UN joint committee on human rights urged the government to bring in laws banning parents from smacking – and jail those who do it.
Our laws allow “reasonable chastisement” as long as children aren’t harmed – but the UN decided they know better than British parents and demanded laws to punish mums and dads who dabble in corporal punishment.
Countries like China, Iran and Turkey are actively repressing their own citizens with harsh surveillance regimes – but who cares?!
UN privacy chiefs managed to down tools on those challenges for enough time to needle the UK government for wanting to give its police more anti-terror powers.
Rapporteur Joseph Cannataci presented a report to UN Human Rights Council – which counts Saudi Arabia as a member – moaning about the investigatory powers bill, which in fact is receiving ample scrutiny in the UK parliament.