The Labour Party in the UK has proven it is Tweedledee (or is it Tweedledum) party to support the EU Superempire. Don’t take my word for it: Read for yourself!
Here’s the sensible Tory proposal (from the Daily Mail) on human rights:
As the Mail revealed yesterday, the Tories will make a manifesto commitment to scrap Labour’s Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
Instead of being bound by rulings from the European Court, it will serve in an ‘advisory’ capacity.
Any verdict which was not in Britain’s interests could be rejected by MPs in a Parliamentary vote.
That is simply what any sovereign nation would or should do. Ought to have majority support.
Here’s what Labour said:
Labour went so far as to warn that the Tories wished to put Britain on a par with Belarus – which commits human rights abuses and imposes the death penalty.
***
There was also anger about Labour’s claim that, if Britain no longer falls under the jurisdiction of Strasbourg, it will be ‘in the same bracket as Belarus, Europe’s last remaining dictatorship’.
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States…are the Supreme Law of the Land…”Article VI, Section 2
Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat justice minister, indicated the move was an attempt to counter the threat from Ukip.
He said: ‘The Conservatives don’t care about the rights of British citizens – they care about losing to Ukip. These plans make no sense: you can’t protect the human rights of Brits and pull out of the system that protects them.
‘We will not allow the Tories to take away the hard-won human rights of British people when in the UK or anywhere else in Europe.’
“The Union’s accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms will confer to the latter the same legal value within the Union’s legal order as that which any other agreement concluded by the Union enjoys pursuant Article 216(2) TFEU. Such agreements have a lower rank than the Treaties but a higher rank than any other act of the institutions.”
They also confirmed that the ECHR is considered ‘primary law’:
According to Article 6(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms constitute general principles of the Union’s law. The general principles of the Union’s law are part of the Union’s primary law.
Meanwhile the ECHR indicated Mr Grayling’s plan to restore the sovereignty of the British Parliament and our courts would not be acceptable. The Council of Europe, which oversees the Strasbourg court, said: ‘As they stand, the proposals are not consistent with the ECHR.’
Mr Grieve said it was ‘laughable’ that Britain would be able to negotiate its own set of rules with Strasbourg and criticised the plans as ‘almost puerile’. He told The Guardian: ‘I also think they are unworkable and will damage the UK’s international reputation.’
About Elwood Sanders
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
- Web |
- More Posts (2712)
Leave a Reply