Contesting an Election: From Lawbreaker to Lawmaker
As the United Kingdom goes to the polls today to elect a new parliament, there's one group of people who won't be voting - the country's prison inmates.
Along with several other European countries, including Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, the UK doesn't allow sentenced prisoners to vote. Following a campaign by former inmate John Hirst, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled in 2004 that the law was in breach of the European Human Rights Convention, but the British government still hasn't lifted the ban.
Other British people denied the vote include the royal family and hereditary peers in the House of Lords, the country's second parliamentary chamber.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
2 comments:
Nice. Where was Rocky?
He was there during some of the shooting...
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