Because it's there, and because they can
I know this sounds all UKIP and that, but isn't it better that the British people have even the most remote ability to manage their own laws through our parliamentary democracy than it is to be controlled by the utterly undemocratic rule of the ECHR?
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Wed 13 May 2015, 18:20,
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Not really true.
We signed up to the ECHR long before the HRA was enacted. On human rights, and many other areas of EU law, but that muddies the waters, as Strasbourg administers the European Court of Human Rights independently of the EU, which is primarily based in Brussels (the Council of Europe is not the same as the European Commission), European law has long been the supreme law in the UK. One of the points of enacting the HRA was to limit redress to Strasbourg, as the same laws were now on the UK statute books. Where it gets even more complicated is how does getting rid of the HRA affect our signature on the Convention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 13 May 2015, 19:03,
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