UK’s new bill of rights will curtail power of European human rights court

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  1. They are so like untrained spoilt children, the pack of them.

    You can not just unilaterely change and change the rules of the game again and again to suit yourelf, because that makes you an impossible person to play with.

    It ain’t rocket science.

  2. Laws, arbitrary agreements made by people who are not you and applied to people who are not them.

  3. > The government’s proposals – unveiled in December – have been criticised by lawyers in the field as confusing and arguably unnecessary because British courts can already ignore rulings from Strasbourg.

    Pretty much sums it up. These policies have nothing to do with legislation, they are created for political reasons to buy votes from certain kinds of people.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61887933

  4. Thing is fully leaving the ECHR and abolishing the Human Rights Act will be very hard because of the Good Friday Agreement and doing so would have huge ramifications bigger then Brexit.

  5. It’s despotism by stealth, no coup, no great enabling act just the erosion of any law or governing body that can hold the Tories to account or prevent them acting as they wish.

  6. The first thing I look for in any bill of rights is whether it curtails other courts in third party locales. Not freedom of speech or the right to a fair trial, it’s stopping those foreign courts we signed up to from doing things. That’s real threedumb

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