THE Human Rights Act would appear to be more concerned with the criminal than with the innocent.
Murderers and rapists will soon be able to appeal (on legal aid) against their "inhumane" sentences.
But there must be many out there who voted for Ted Heath, Thatcher and Major. With enthusiasm they embraced EU, Brussels and so on. Then, like lemmings, again in their thousands, they switched to New Labour under pro- European Mr Blair.
And in so doing, they endorsed the euro, the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights and an Act which is administered by judges from such unlikely countries as Albania, Latvia and the Ukraine.
I wonder how many of our nave British voters now have problems with the Human Rights Act?
Then there is the pensioners' 75 pence per week which the country could "ill afford." The Home Office recently had no trouble finding £1m of taxpayers' cash to promote the Human Rights Act.
F L JONES,
Malvern
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