Quote ="JerryChicken"Just to swerve back to the question originally asked - the choice between the European Convention on Human Rights or a British Bill of Rights - you have to ask yourself first if you are happy to allow a group of people to draw up YOUR bill of rights if their first decision is to rip up the European Convention on Human Rights, what is intrinsically so bad about the ECHR that it needs to be scrapped in its entirety and what will THEY replace it with if its not something that benefits THEIR interests rather than OURS.'"
Indeed. And worryingly the government is populated by ignorant cretins like failing Grayling, and they can't even articulate exactly what it is that they object to, or how their brave new human rights free world will be better, in what way, for whom?
The plain answer is, of course, that they want increasingly free rein to trample on people's rights, and the ECHR is one of the few remaining areas where they face any real opposition. Add a dumbed-down population who blindly and ravenously gobble up anti-HR Wail scare stories and you can see how they get away with their incessant attack on long-established rights and freedoms.
