Originally Posted by gurnE
Originally Posted by Phil DJ
I wouldn't scrap a law but I would scrap all this 'Human Rights' bollocks.
The Human Rights Act?
Are you serious????
- Article 2: Right to Life
- Article 3: Prohibition on Torture
- Article 4: Prohibition on slavery and forced labour
- Article 5: Right to liberty and security
- Article 6: Right to a fair trial
- Article 7: No punishment without law
- Article 8: Right to respect for private and family life
- Article 9: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
- Article 10: Right to freedom of expression
- Article 11: Freedom of assembly and association
- Article 12: Right to marry and found a family
- Article 14: Prohibition on discrimination
- Article 1 of the First Protocol: Protection of property
- Article 2 of the First Protocol: Right to education
- Article 3 of the First Protocol: Right to free elections
Which parts do you disagree with?
Originally Posted by kennyA
The law which says you are free to choose to vote or not should be removed, or at least the law should change.
Everyone MUST vote, unless they have a pretty good excuse, like death or something...
What if
a. There is no party you can, in good conscience, vote for?
or
b. You consider voting to be condoning a system which you do not support or believe in?
If we are talking about the Human Rights Act 1998 as enacted by the Uk Parliament..I'd probably look seriously at rewriting it. Since it's creation it's been declared void (well, as the HOC likes to put it ''incompatible'') by not one, but 22 pieces of uk legislation, with the 23rd going through as a Bill in this Parliamentary session. It's not what it should be. Parliament can just declare it ''incompatible'' with any particular piece of legislation and bypass it. You shouldn't have such a fundamental Act being avoided when it doesn't suit. It should always apply, if at all. You can't have ''part time'' rights.
Seriously though, for me it's the Hunting Act...no, I'm not middle class, no, I don't agree with Fox Hunting in the slightest. I detest it. It's the reason I stopped horse riding when I was younger as I couldn't mix with people who agreed with it.
However, it's proclaimed to be one of, if not the worst worded piece of legislation out of the 22,000 acts we have kicking around in the statute books. For anybody who thought the House of Lords rejected it on the grounds they are ''toffs'' it was actually because the highest court in the land thought it was the most poorly put together bundle of paper it could have been. People will still hunt (eg on boxing day), they'll still cruelly kill foxes..and..at worst...people will deliberately flout the law knowing they won't get caught.
Bin it...and write it properly.