Re: Didn't British lawyers draft the original European Convention on Human Rights back in the 50s?
@Xamol: SPOT ON. Drafted at Churchill's instigation by the Scotsman David Maxwell Fyfe, later Tory Lord Chancellor, formerly Britain's chief Nuremberg prosecutor, the man who found the way to rip apart Herman Goering's defence in cross-examination.
The ECHR is English natural justice in drag, rammed down the throats of the European nations' legal systems so that fascist governments in Europe could never rise again. The UK was the founding signatory. Stuff like Right to life. Right to Property. Non-confiscation. Non-enslavement. non-torture. Even fair trial! Freedom of expression! Privacy! How refreshingly novel!
Cute irony isn't it? Both parties, under Thatcher and Blair, tore up English natural justice along with what was left of the constitution. Now they chafe under our last brake on tyranny, the ECHR. Churchill's greatest legacy. Well done, Conservative Party! Slow handclap!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
