Letter: Woefully out of touch with mood
I read with incredulity the letter by D Mayne (February 8) trumpeting how wonderful the European Bill of Human Rights is. I have a few comments to make about this bill.
Firstly the bill was unlawfully forced on the British People by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair,who did not give the British people a chance to vote in a referendum to sign up to this bill.
Secondly the Court of Human Rights Judges are totally unelected by the British people. Over the years since having this Bill foisted upon the British people there have been multitudes of cases which read like sick Jokes if only they were not so true. I am sure most Observer readers can recall at least a few of the more amazing rulings of the Court of Human Rights over the years. These are too numerous to mention here.
Many of the rulings from Strasbourg seem to favour the human rights of convicted criminals both foreign and home grown,terrorists,and illegal immigrants who have never ever contributed anything to this country and are only here to sponge off of our soft benefits system, but no Human rights for the criminals’ victims or their families.
As for Mr Mayne invoking Sir Winston Churchill in his letter, I wonder what Mr Churchill would have to say on the Bill of Human Rights and the meddling of Brussels in British sovereign Law?
As per usual the senior politicians of all the three main parties are woefully out of touch with the mood and opinion of the British people regarding this monumentally crass bill of idiocy
The Politicians won’t give us normal folk a vote on the bill as they know that the people would vote to tear up the bill.
I suggest that Mr Mayne,and Nick Clegg and the rest of the senior politicos, Judges and do-gooders in this country wake up,take off their rose tinted spectacles,leave their cosy mansions and leafy suburbs and actually get out there and listen to the British people and ask them their opinion on this awful piece of Blair’s legacy.
I think they are in for a rude shock. and they know it. If us members of the Great British Public had their say the European Bill of Human Rights would definitely not be here to stay.
Russell Gore, Northgate
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