https://www.thejournal.ie/tory-leader-call-uk-leave-human-rights-convention-6835901-Oct2025/
Subheading: Kemi Badenoch kicked off the annual Tory conference in Manchester with a pledge to leave the ECHR.
THE LEADER OF Sinn Féin and the Northern Ireland Secretary are among those who have criticised Tory calls to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said every party candidate must sign up to leaving the ECHR or face being barred from standing at the next election.
She kicked off the annual Tory conference in Manchester with a pledge to leave the ECHR as part of a plan to deport 150,000 people a year from the UK.
Mary Lou McDonald described Badenoch’s comments as “very worrying” while Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the stance was “utterly irresponsible”.
Reform has also advocated for a withdrawal from the ECHR.
Speaking to the PA news agency on Sunday, McDonald said the ECHR is an “essential building block” of the Good Friday Agreement, which was signed as part of the peace process to end the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
She added: “Everybody in British public life should know that.
“So that is a very worrying statement and just to be clear: the British state, whoever is in government, cannot walk away from the commitments that have been solemnly undertaken with Ireland in respect of the six counties.”
Benn accused the Conservative Party of advocating a policy that could undermine the Good Friday Agreement.
In a statement on social media, Benn said: “When the Northern Ireland Bill to implement the Good Friday Agreement was debated in the House of Commons on July 20 1998, the then Conservative opposition gave it its full support.
“The GFA has resulted in over 27 years of peace after the trauma of the Troubles.
“And yet the Conservative Party has now joined Reform in advocating a policy that could undermine the Good Friday Agreement – namely by proposing to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
“Until recently, it was completely unthinkable that a party aspiring to govern the United Kingdom would countenance putting that agreement at risk, given that ECHR membership is one of the GFA’s founding pillars.
“Or that they would seek to put the UK in the same group as Belarus and Russia as the only three countries in Europe which would not be signatories to the convention. Utterly irresponsible.”
by SpottedAlpaca
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shouldnt worry too hard, Kami couldnt find her arse with both hands
We need Sinn Féin, who are the voice of reason to get us out of this mess
Bit of a laugh having Sinn Fein – the party of murdering folk in the street, kneecappings and disappearances – worry about a human rights charter.
Much as I support the ECHR, the Good Friday Agreement does not necessitate the UK being part of the Council of Europe or the implementation of the Convention as it currently is at UK level. You can support one or not the other. Hence the Secretary of State’s rather mealy-mouthed comment with lots of “could” and “at risk” type stuff.
I wish just once some journalist would ask these fucks what particular human rights they don’t want Brits to have.
Like the ECHR isn’t some vast all-encompassing document full of hard to understand legal-speak. It’s a fairly straightforward document that outlines very fundamental rights – freedom of life, freedom from torture, freedom from slavery, right to liberty, right to a fair trial, right to privacy, freedom of religion and so on.
Which of these specifically does Kemi feel that Europeans should have but Brits don’t deserve?
Is anyone else, like myself, seriously considering contacting the Home Office about renouncing their British Citizenship? They are always fucking _at it_. What actually is their problem?
I have both an Irish and British passport. My British passport is up in 2027 and I shall not be renewing it, but I think I may go further than that.
Watch how British millionaires, on the payroll of billionaires, will convince people who need to use food banks to get by, that HUMAN RIGHTS are problematic. If they can just get rid of a HUMAN RIGHTS convention, then they can really fix Britain.
And their fucking gimp lapdogs over here in the DUP, TUV and UUP will parrot the same message to their even more impoverished constituents because they are desperate to scrap the Good Friday Agreement, desperate for a hard border to return. Desperate for them taigs to get to get up to badness again so they can really crush them this time. And hey if none of that happens English Master sez he will still gives us a Lorship if we voteses the way Master tells us.
And before you know it Sammy from the Shankill will be phoning in to Nolan to boldly assert the main English right wing talking points without any detail or understanding and Nolan will answer back in a silly voice “sure ye can’t say that”. But he did Stephen. And you broadcast him saying it. And people at home were nodding along. And instead of making a laughing stock out of him, and dismantling his arguments and educating your audience, you put on a silly voice.
A lot of Sinn Fein didn’t care about the human rights of the people they were shooting and blowing up
This is SF pointing to GFA any time they hear something they don’t like the sound of.
Badenoch is a bumbling fool. If she’s the best the Tories have then it won’t matter.
How do alarm bells (fucking KLAXONS) not go off in people’s minds, when a political party are going “human rights? Not for us thanks!”
Sinn Fein caring about human rights?!? LMFAO. They’ll be selling poppies next.
It’s almost as if immigration is being used to shoe horn in their real objectives, where have we seen this before…
do you think they’re deliberately making everything shit bit by bit so we’ll all just go ahead with a united ireland?
Sinn Fein talking about human rights is like an arsonist talking about fire safety.
It’s not worrying at all. This is a useful reminder to politicians, if they want to create any outrageous laws and have them remain, just bundle and label it “human rights” or “puppy cuddles” legislation. Then when the law is questioned, what they appear to be questioning is human rights or puppy cuddles and automatically become the immoral one. Soviet style law making, and a worryingly large amount of the population fall for it.
I have no idea how you can possibly uphold the GFA whilst also exiting the ECHR. It would breach the spirit (and possibly the letter) of the GFA.
It would undermine the basis for many cross-border institutions. And likely cause a diplomatic crisis.
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