Tuesday, April 02, 2013
How have things gone so badly wrong?
It hasn't turned out well for Britain...
In the U.K. Daily Mail, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling hits the nail on the head:
"All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead. The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.
In almost 50 years, the European Court of Human Rights considered only around 800 cases. It was a sensible, advisory body. Then in 1998 everything changed. Those who ran it wanted more power, and Tony Blair and other European politicians just gave it to them. And Blair wrote European human rights law into our own statute book as well.
Since then things seem to have gone mad. The court now has 133,000 outstanding cases and is hopelessly overwhelmed."
