The government home secretary, Theresa May, has said that the Conservatives would seriously consider leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and would scrap the Human Rights Act.
In her deluded world, May seems to think this would be a good move and something which would receive support from the British public. However, any move to abolish the Human Rights Act and leave the European Convention would be highly dangerous for British citizens.
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This is another perspective on the Coalition's
attack on international human rights legislation, and the freedoms we will lose
if this goes ahead. It also details the way the government has retroactively
applied legislation to overturn legal rulings it didn't like, and the way most
of the government's violations of our rights simply don't make it into the news.
It quotes Lord Dyson of the Human Rights Lawyers Association as stating that
human rights in Britain are under assault. He is the second most senior judge in
the UK. This is vitally important, and needs to be read.
