Talk among Tories of leaving the ECHR is reaching fever pitch (again), so its as well to be reminded about what the consequences of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would & wouldn't be.
Whatever the practical issues, as Joelle Grogan (King's College) concludes, not only would it encourage further withdrawals, leaving the ECHR would be one more element in the destruction of the UK's (already floundering) global reputation, with further consequences.
Looking at this list of the benefits of (continued) membership of the European Convention on Human Rights, its perhaps not so hard to see what the swivel-eyed, right-wing nut-job tendency have against it....
When you're conducting a #classwar, pushing a #racist agenda on #imigration, or just trying to curtail popular criticisms of what you are doing for you (political) chums, these are all a but too inconvenient!
The thing about human rights is that, if you once recognised them as universal and essential, they will at some point become deeply inconvenient. This is a good thing.
If you ever feel that human rights are getting in the way, please reflect on their strength and potency, and why we once thought of them as inviolable.
Then think—really think—about what you’re trying to do and why it’s incompatible with a universal set of human rights. Let them guide you into the light. #HumanRights#ECHR
The European Convention on Human Rights "encompasses a right to effective protection by the State authorities from the serious adverse effects of climate change".
The Swiss government "failed to comply with its duties", including its failure "to quantify, through a carbon budget or otherwise, national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limitations", and "to meet its past GHG emission reduction targets".
“Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute.”
Terry Pratchett; Lords and Ladies #DiscWorld#Jenrick#ECHR#HumanRights#ToryValues#ToryFascistDictatorship
Start your engines: every Tory who's after Sunak's job post-election is jumping on the "ECHR is to blame for us being shit" bandwagon.
The Times: "Ben Wallace: Human rights laws are protecting terrorists
Ex-defence secretary attacks ‘lunacy’ of legislation such as the ECHR that prevents the UK carrying out raids abroad to capture suspects" https://archive.ph/8Qwjh #UKPolitics#ECHR#RefugeesWelcome#HumanRights
'There are substantial grounds for believing that the removal of the claimants to Rwanda would expose them to a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement' [repatriation to the countries from which they fled].
Unfortunately for the #Tory right (but likely to be ignored by them) the ruling is not only based on our membership of the #ECHR, but on a range of international commitments & a decisive intervention by the UN Refugee Agency.
Commissioner for Human Rights:
"Encryption is a vital tool for the protection of the right to privacy, freedom of expression and many other #HumanRights and indispensable for digital security.
@coe states have a duty to safeguard individual rights in line with the #ECHR "
Six young people are preparing to appear at the European court of human rights to try to compel 32 nations to rapidly escalate their emissions reductions in the world’s largest climate legal action to date. They argue that a lack of adequate action is a breach of human rights.
The six Portuguese claimants say they were driven to act by their experiences in the wildfires that ripped through the Leiria region in 2017.
Today’s landmark rulings by the European Court of Human Rights confirm that #climatechange poses existential risks for humankind impacting on #HumanRights and that states are obliged to act to fight it. They give victims clarity on the way forward in protecting their rights. #ECHR
Robert Jenrick, who has got his Adolph underpants on, says to #BBCLauraK, "I do support pulling out of the European Court of Human Rights."
Chakrabarti reminds him that the #ECHR has protected British people from abuses by its own government, and there are currently interim measures in relation to Putin's Russia preventing Ukranian prisoners of war from being executed
[She doesn't say because she is interrupted by Jenrick, that it was the UK that first evoked these measures.]
Rights court rules Poland should recognise same-sex partnerships
Poland has violated the right to respect for a private life by failing to offer legal recognition for same-sex couples, the European Court of Human Rights said on Tuesday, putting pressure on Donald Tusk's new government to quickly change the law.
NEW PODCAST: A rare example of happy climate news in this week's episode! We're talking about the victory of 2000 older Swiss women who took their government to the European Court of Human Rights demanding more action on climate change.
The good news:
Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary has come out forcefully in support of the ECHR....
The bad news:
Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary thinks the solution to the UK prison problem is to build more prisons....
And while she is right, 'Change will not happen overnight... We cannot wave a magic wand & return our legal system to its former glory'... lets hope at least the mood music will change quickly!
"The [European] Convention [on Human Rights] was drafted [...] in the aftermath of the horror of the Second World War, but over 70 years ago. And it's now clearly been overtaken by events"
— Conservative and Unionist Party MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, House of Commons, 2024-05-14
Your Member of Parliament yesterday represented you by stating that the #ECHR, guaranteeing freedom from slavery and torture, the rights to life and fair trials, so horrifically violated during WW2 and fought for by many, are now out of date and should be renegotiated by the United Kingdom in favour of more limited #HumanRights.
Is this your view?
Are you willing to espouse this view aloud in, say, Wickford Memorial Park?