The judgement by European Court of Human Rights that Britain has breached human rights of some 1000 British prisoners by denying them voting rights has enraged PM David Cameron and most Conservative MPs who see this intrusion as meddling, interfering in British laws by bleeding heart, unelected judges who live in Ivory Tower, detached from realities on the ground.
Mr Cameron in their manifesto before the last general election promised to withdraw from European Human Rights Convention and give British people our own bill of Rights and Responsibilities. But now their lame excuse is that their coalition partners LibDem opposes it, a lame duck excuse that convinces no one.
The PM should have introduced such a bill in Parliament and let LibDem Veto it. If they do so, it would hammer the last nail in LibDem coffin, especially nearer election time and wipe them out as a political force. Shedding crocodile tears convinces no one.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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