Yes, agree with just about all of that. When I joined a political party in 2016 I had understood that that party proposed to scrap the European Human Rights Act 1998 as part of Brexit, but it didn’t happen. I fear the likelihood of it ever happening is remote.
Yes, Prof. Gray’s points are well-made, and should have been obvious to more people a long time ago. A seemingly utopian policy has been instituted in the only places it could be – where there was already the rule of law, respect for the individual and access to justice. However, arguably, the damage has been done. It may be equally damaging to try to put back the clock. To a considerable extent, human rights were an attempt to export a secular codification of a particular moral system, and the codification and legalism was part of that strategy – it “packaged” them. To renounce them at home now might look dreadful.
So we have to keep the present system because to revert to the previous one ‘might look dreadful’. To whom ? Are you suggesting the most important thing is to act as an example for illiberal foreign governments ?
Surely the situation whereby control of our borders is removed from the elected government is terrible for democracy and also an appalling advert for the concept of ‘human rights’ .
Yes, agree with just about all of that. When I joined a political party in 2016 I had understood that that party proposed to scrap the European Human Rights Act 1998 as part of Brexit, but it didn’t happen. I fear the likelihood of it ever happening is remote.
Yes, Prof. Gray’s points are well-made, and should have been obvious to more people a long time ago. A seemingly utopian policy has been instituted in the only places it could be – where there was already the rule of law, respect for the individual and access to justice.
However, arguably, the damage has been done. It may be equally damaging to try to put back the clock. To a considerable extent, human rights were an attempt to export a secular codification of a particular moral system, and the codification and legalism was part of that strategy – it “packaged” them. To renounce them at home now might look dreadful.
So we have to keep the present system because to revert to the previous one ‘might look dreadful’. To whom ? Are you suggesting the most important thing is to act as an example for illiberal foreign governments ?
Surely the situation whereby control of our borders is removed from the elected government is terrible for democracy and also an appalling advert for the concept of ‘human rights’ .