I don’t really keep up on UK politics since I’m an ignorant American, but this is just absurd in it’s brazenness.
Usually politicians aren’t so up front with their ‘security over freedom/rights’ agenda, they just quietly pass bills that advance that agenda; but May’s coming right out and saying that human rights are something that can be revoked if need be. Sheesh.
Mate, there are many ignorant people in the UK too 😃
You’re spot on with this - it’s something that the Tories have promised before - replacing the European Convention On Human Rights with a vague and undetailed ‘British Bill Of Rights’.
Picard summed up it very well with this…
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us? (Python-themed video in link)
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA
However, this time it is to deflect away from her appalling record as Prime Minister and Home Secretary where Police and domestic intelligence services have been cut - to the point where she accused them of scaremongering over them when they pointed out the consequences of these cuts some years ago.
‘Keir Starmer: UK human rights law does not prevent capture of terrorists’…