| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | |
| Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 01/11/25 13:17:00 |
| Activist judges, Jonathan, do not merely interpret the law, they make the law. This distinction is fundamentally one of degree but sometimes the degree is so great that it is clear that the judiciary is usurping the role of the legislature. The most obvious example is the decision by the ECHR to condemn Switzerland's tardy progress towards net zero on the basis of Article 8 of the European Convention which guarantees the right to family. Thus a political issue, net zero, which should be subject to the democratic will of the Swiss people, has been captured by the unelected judges of the EHCR who have chosen to extend the meaning of the Convention in a way never intended by the original signatories. Similarly Britush judges who halt the deportation of foreign criminals and illegal migrants, justifying their decision on the basis of extreme interpretations of the Convention by the activist judges of the ECHR, are frustrating the will of the elected government. Even Keir Starmer has declared his dissatisfaction over this situation. So it is somewhat disingenuous to pretend that this issue has simply been concocted by the right wing press. Both major parties agree that the ECHR is a problem. The disagreement is over whether the UK should withdraw from the Convention, as the Conservatives propose, or whether parts of the Convention should be disapplied, which seems to be Labour's position. |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 31/10/25 19:00:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 31/10/25 19:24:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 31/10/25 21:09:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 31/10/25 21:43:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 00:59:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 10:45:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 05:56:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 08:17:00 | Robert Wheeler |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 10:09:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 02/11/25 01:35:00 | Ed Robinson |
| Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 10:14:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 12:19:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 13:17:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 15:26:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 16:02:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 16:05:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 16:40:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 16:49:00 | Gerry Boyce |
| Reply | 01/11/25 16:17:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Reply | 01/11/25 16:59:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:The real reason for removing the ECHR? | 01/11/25 16:29:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
| Reply | 01/11/25 17:34:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Reply | 01/11/25 22:31:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Reply | 01/11/25 17:05:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Reply | 01/11/25 17:19:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 01/11/25 18:30:00 | Philippa Bond |
| Re:Reply | 01/11/25 18:46:00 | Steven Rose |
| Reply | 01/11/25 22:49:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 01/11/25 23:49:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Reply | 02/11/25 17:02:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Re:Reply | 02/11/25 13:32:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Reply | 02/11/25 17:52:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Reply | 02/11/25 21:19:00 | Michael Brigo |
| Reply | 02/11/25 18:04:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 02/11/25 18:17:00 | Sue Hammond |
| Reply | 02/11/25 18:23:00 | Michael Ixer |