In ten years or so of threats and promises of UK leaving the ECHR, there has never once been an attempt to explain how such a departure can square with the Good Friday Agreement.
The issue is simply ignored - and the threat and promise is simply repeated, for claps and cheers.
@davidallengreen I fully expect that, if they're in opposition after the election, the Tories will make 'leave the ECHR' a permanent fixture of their policies and publicity. It's very easy to argue for if they're no longer in government and no longer able to bring it about.
And then at some time in the future, they'll be back in power, and with a large base of support who are expecting them to take the UK out of the ECHR immediately.
@RolloTreadway@davidallengreen Oof. That's horribly feasible. And by then the Good Friday Agreement might well not be an issue, if Star Trek's prediction comes into play.
@davidallengreen While I'm aware that the standard modus operandi for the government is to say they'll leave the ECHR but then do nothing about it, it can only be a matter of time before people on the right of the party start campaigning for Irish reunification on the grounds that it's a necessary precondition for the rest of the UK to leave the ECHR.
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