Educating Britons. My column on the Council of Europe &Human Rights Act.
, still lost in fantasies about sovereignty or in a froth about “illegal” migration, get all mixed up about such basic facts. So here they are: the European Convention on Human Rights and Council of Europe are not part of the European Union; 19 out of the 46 states signed up are outside the EU; Belarus is not in the Council; and Russia has been expelled because of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Moving on. The Convention is not, as populists claim, a charter that only protects criminals and ne’er do wells, trans deviants or those on small boats who infuriate, and threaten our good lives. It recognises that humans are born free, yet are everywhere, even in mature democracies, constricted. And it protects us all from obvious and subtle tyrannical forces.
One key writer of the Convention was British Conservative MP and lawyer David Maxwell-Fyfe, previously a British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Those Tories were upholders of decent values.The right to lifeThe right to free speech, free thought and expressionFreedom from forced labourThese were enshrined in law for the first time ever by the Council of Europe. I first appreciated this in 1979, when the.
Judges are meant to be, and mostly are, independent and impartial.
Now a question. Who said this is in 1992, at the opening ceremony of a new Council of Europe building? “[This] is a tribute to the success of the ever growing success of the Human Rights Convention, so much a part of our democratic heritage”? Answer: it wasRishi Sunak and his gang are all set to trash that heritage. It has already stolen our rights with various new laws banning protests and criminalising asylum seekers.
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