FOLLOWING CT Riley’s letter concerning the Conservative plan to scrap the European Human Rights Act (EHRA), I did a bit of research (HAS, May 26). It didn’t take long to discover the proposed replacement, The British Rights Bill, will be a watered down version of the EHRA. By definition this means we will be losing a number of our human rights.
If no risk to our human rights existed, then organizations such as Amnesty International, 38 Degrees, Liberty, etc. wouldn’t be campaigning against it. Newspapers such as The Independent and The Guardian wouldn’t be raising concerns; political figures including Ken Clarke, David Davis, Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon wouldn’t be opposing the plan. Conservatives such as Andrew Mitchell, Dominic Grieve and Damian Green wouldn’t be warning against its scrapping. And no threat of a revolt within the Conservative Party would exist.
It’s easy to call someone arrogant, a liar or unpatriotic. But when the truth is that people from different political parties, human rights organizations and newspapers openly oppose the plan, only someone ignorant would make assumptions and not start asking questions.
C MacArt, Spennymoor.
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