Bill of Rights

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 5 April 2011.

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Photo of Esther McVey Esther McVey Conservative, Wirral West 11:30, 5 April 2011

I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for his response. In the light of the European Court of Human Rights judgments that have gone against the will of the British public by giving prisoners the right to vote, allowing paedophiles to be removed from the sex offenders register and preventing deportation of those considered dangerous to the country’s national security, specifically when could the British Bill of Rights be introduced and how will the Deputy Prime Minister ensure that it will reflect the will of the British public in law?

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Robert Sharp
Posted on 6 Apr 2011 2:19 pm (Report this annotation)

This is a fallacy, designed (it seems to me) to undermine the human rights act and to mislead. It is not clear whether Ms McVey is deliberatelu misleading, or whether she has simply read the tabloid reports of the court judgements, rather than the judgements themselves.

I both cases (prisoner votes and the sex offenders register), Human Rights legislation has NOT "given prisoners the right to vote" or "removed paedophiles from the sex offenders register". It merely says that these types of punishment must not be blanket and without review or appeal. Both cases are similar to that of parole and bail, where there is a right to apply for it, but no right that you will get it.