Should we have human rights without accepting responsibilities? Should rights be removed from offenders?
The big mistake was to give individual right of access to the Court of Human Rights. It is not a privilege given by other signatories to the relevant agreements. This is what causes the overwhelming majority of Human Rights cases to emanate from the UK and for the taxpayer to fund them. Were we to try to remove the rights claimed by offenders, Strasbourg would clamp down heavily against the British government and defend the rights of the most scurrilous of villains. That is the mess we have got ourselves into. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6755129.
