That bloody Europe
The European Court of Human Rights is much funkier than Ealing Magistrates' Court As we all know Europe’s sole reason for existing is to frustrate the British Government and annoy the British people with their directives, regulations and pesky decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. The minor fact that the European Union has nothing to do with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is just a technicality – they’re all in it together. A big complaint among those opposed to Europe is the ban placed upon us by the ECtHR preventing us from locking up murderers and throwing away the key. I did point out what a lot of nonsense this is more than a year ago in January 2014 in Aiming for a century . In a nutshell the problem arose because the UK government abolished the review of whole of life sentences that used to take place when they were 25-years into their sentence. The ECtHR, not unreasonably, puts rehabilitation at the core of the convention ...