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Britain threatens to ignore European Court of Human Rights rulings
2014-10-04
[Pak Daily Times] Britannia will quit the European Court of Human Rights unless it agrees that the Westminster parliament has the final say over its rulings, Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
’s Conservatives said on Friday.

Cameron has said rulings by the European rights court had prevented Britannia deporting suspected krazed killers, insisted on human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
on the battlefields of Afghanistan and upheld the rights of prisoners to vote.

“We do not require instruction on this from judges in Strasbourg,” Cameron told Conservative activists this week in the English city of Birmingham on Oct 1.

Under the proposal, if the Conservatives are re-elected in May 2015, Britannia will pass a Bill of Rights that would set out the application of human rights law in Britannia.

The proposed changes would mean the European court’s rulings would no longer be binding over the Supreme Court and the Westminster parliament would have the right to veto the European court’s judgments.

The Human Rights Act, domestic legislation which enshrines the international principles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into British law, will be scrapped.

“We can’t go on with the situation where changes to our laws are made in an international court with no democratic override in the UK,” Justice Secretary Chris Grayling told the Times.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Sorry JQC but the sovereignty was ceded quite a while ago, long before Cameron.

The "process" of turning the EU into one sovereignty is slow but sure. The centralized powers will just keep growing.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-10-04 14:28  

#5  Cameron should not cede sovereignty of his country to this body anymore than the U.S. should cede authority to the U.N.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-04 13:27  

#4  This is the result of the misbegotten idea that you can have a "little" tyrranny.

You cede "some" of your sovereignty and then are suprised to find out that you lost it all.

The EU, Tranzi elites, want and will sieze absolute power.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-10-04 09:31  

#3  when a court tells you something, you don't get a vote
As an individual you don't, but after enough abuses large groups form who 'vote' with guns.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-10-04 07:38  

#2  Ah, but when a court tells you something, you don't get a vote.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-10-04 07:33  

#1  A dog growls but, eventually, submits.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-10-04 03:22  

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