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george hancock's avatar

I’m completely opposed to considering remaining in the ECHR.

My logic is, if we are in such conventions as the ECHR it’s because we don’t trust our own judiciary and appeals process.

In that case fix the judiciary rather than joining a foreign and often times more corrupt organisation to solve the problem.

Are we an independent country or not.

Turn around and there’s another organisation interfering with our democracy UN, EU,WEF, WHO off the top of my head.

What makes them more sage than our lot?

It seems to me that many of our problems are down to having joined a myriad of undemocratic, often corrupt international organisations that rule according to the mindset of the most powerful leadership of a country pulling the strings.

So much for democratic government when the people have absolutely no control over the instruments of power.

Get out of the ECHR and tell the people that they are the arbiters of the law not shadowy foreign despots.

If there are consequences can they be any worse than the situation we find ourselves? I think not.

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Nicholas Hughes's avatar

It's been a fairly good week for the Tories. They sound more coherent right now, they've had a win in parliament with the U-turn over the winter fuel allowance and Jenrick's fare dodging sting pushed the transport police to actually take the matter serious.

Conversely Reform have had a bad week: Zia Yousuf out, then back in, then David Bull is made chairman and he promptly says immigration built Britain, Nigel Farage is who knows where and Lee Anderson can only deal in childish insults.

But none of that seems to matter because Reform are still polling better than everyone else and that voter resentment towards the other parties is still fuelling them. How long will that last though?

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