'I GIVE IN' - THE WORDS WRITTEN ON CAMERON'S HEART
The largely powerless Strasbourg Human Rights court has functioned for years as an excuse for British governments that badly wanted to do stupid, liberal things – but feared punishment at the polls.
They could claim that they were ‘forced’ to do these things by the raggle-taggle judges in their palace on the banks of the curiously named River Ill.
Oddly enough, it was David Cameron himself who punctured this delusion, by promising in an unwise moment to pass a ‘British Bill of Rights’ (we already have one, but this Oxford-educated ignoramus doesn’t seem to know this).
So his whinnying claim that he ‘had no choice’ but to yield to the demands of a drug-hazed axe-killer and give votes to serving prisoners is particularly contemptible.
He had a choice. He just preferred not to exercise it. If Britain pulled out of the Strasbourg court, and resolved to regulate its own liberties, nobody would lift a finger to stop us.
This man has ‘I give in’ written on his heart (see how long his tough line on immigration lasted). I advise all newspapers to keep the headline ‘Cameron backs down on . . .’ set permanently in large type. We are going to need it a lot.
"The largely powerless Strasbourg Human Rights court", Peter Hitchens, er what about the Interlaken Process? Who's an ignoramus now? That is real power. Not the waffling of some drunk and old Daily Mail hack!
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.
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