Posted on 10/03/2014 9:08:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
For years, the Mail has campaigned against the insidious and remorseless undermining of the sovereignty of Parliament and our judicial system by the remote, unaccountable European Court of Human Rights.
From demanding that prisoners should get the vote to halting the deportation of terrorists who hate this country’s values, it is synonymous with judgments that fly in the face of common sense and the interests of the British people.
Indeed, judicial activism in Strasbourg—and, remember, some ECHR members represent countries with populations smaller than the London borough of Islington—has warped the original noble intentions of the British authors of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A document designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps has instead become a charter for criminals and politically-correct special interest groups. …
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