“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/justice/leaving-the-echr-wont-take-back-control-it-will-hand-your-rights-to-politicians/

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

East Anglia Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism
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1) Reform convinces Labour and the Conservatives to scrap the act
2) The act is scrapped
3) The government bans the Reform Party
4) (insert shocked Pikachu face meme)
@mikegalsworthy if Russia is any indication, ECHR is really good.
@mikegalsworthy It’s joining those bastions of liberal democracy, Russia and Belarus.

@mikegalsworthy - isn't this well understood on all sides though? If you believe that it's desirable for the government to promote one group at the expense of everyone else, and that you're in that group then anything which limits their ability to do that will be seen as meddling.

IMO we need more discussion about why it's important for governments to protect everyone equally, which I think will only happen once the mainstream narrative becomes less fearful.

@mikegalsworthy I bet that ”British Bill of Rights” would make the billionaires richer and workers more exploitable. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Use outrage as bait to move up your industry friends and get paid in power later.

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Try telling that to the ReformUK and Tory voters, they are not listening to any of that, but they are listening to so many people slagging off Labour every time Labour say's or does anything.
And ReformUK are flying up the polls on the back of it.

@lyndamerry484 @mikegalsworthy There is NO POINT in telling ANY facts to gammons. Gammons don't do facts. They just don't see facts as relevant inputs to their decision making processes.

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“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.”

Those who want out of the protection are strangely among the top candidates on my deport list. Send to an extremely remote uninhabited island with no area to land even a helicopter, surrounded by Millions of Box Jellyfish and sea mines to prevent even a small boat from leaving.

Must immediately add Kemi Bad Enoch and Lizz Struss to the pictured hateful creatures.

@mikegalsworthy and it’s nothing to do with Brussels or the EU.
@mikegalsworthy If a politician suggests leaving the ECHR that is the clearest red flag warning you can get that they should never ever have any position of any power.
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"Absolutely! Protecting our rights should always come first." 🙌
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One of the giveaways is that the far right agitators make frequent appeals about their rights under the ECHR.