SO Home Secretary Theresa May wants to pull the UK out of the European Convention of Human Rights and strip the European Court in Strasbourg of its right to be involved in UK cases.
Since the Human Rights Act became part of UK law in 1998, it has been a convenient scapegoat for everything wrong with our justice system. Yet the same politicians who claim we are subservient to Europe will readily hand over UK citizens to the US without a thought.
The Strasbourg court successfully deals with up to 50,000 cases a year but politicians prefer to focus on a handful of cases such as Islamist hate preachers.
When Theresa May claims that the HRA is a criminal?s charter, her lies are more in tune with pub rhetoric than reasoned legal argument.
It is the vulnerable, the elderly, workers, the poor, victims of crime, children, women, the gay community, the homeless and the disabled who have benefitted the most from the Act.
What the Tories really want is to be able to do whatever the hell they like and not to be held liable for neglect of duty or abuse of power.
A lot of rubbish is printed about how murderers escape justice, but Article 2 of the HRA imposes a positive obligation on the State to protect life.
Victims? families have repeatedly forced the authorities to publicly investigate the circumstances of deaths of loved ones when they have messed up.
In one example, the Ministry of Defence argued that British soldiers should forfeit all their human rights when they leave their Army base, yet the family of Private Jason Smith who died of heatstroke in Basra in 2003 after repeatedly telling medical staff he was feeling unwell, took them to court, which stated that soldiers should have the benefit of the rights guaranteed in the HRA wherever they are.
What about local authorities who look after the sick and elderly ? do you think they can be trusted to do so with dignity and respect if there was no law to hold them to account?
Truth of the matter is that the Tories hate Human Rights because it reins in their powers.
Many of the rights we take for granted, such as equal treatment, the right to privacy, fair pay and free speech would disappear if the Tories get their way.
And what about deporting ?hate preachers?? The law of this land allows us to deport those no longer permitted to stay in this country or deemed a threat to our security, but international law states that torture is prohibited, which means we cannot then arrange for the ?difficult ones? to be put on to flights if there is a ?substantial risk? that on arrival they will be tortured.
We cannot claim moral superiority to the likes of Saddam Hussein if we just end up outsourcing the torture.
Whether it be Hillsborough, Pat Finucane, Ian Tomlinson or our role in rendition, we know that the authorities pay lip service to the truth.
They never accept responsibility until the truth is dragged out of them by grieving families. For these families, the Human Rights Act is their weapon of truth.
For every hate preacher there are millions of decent families who benefit from the Human Rights Act every day.
Unless we wake up, we will see a horrific change to our way of life, as the Tories roll back our freedoms turning this country into something it?s not.
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