"The controversial Human Rights Act WILL be axed, David Cameron vowed yesterday. The PM pledged to replace Labour's law with a British Bill of Rights"
- Deputy Political Editor, The Sun
This book is NOT about saving the Human Rights Act ...
It's about building a 'safety net' of basic entitlements which can never be taken away from us by any political party. That way, whatever happens to the Act, we will always have this net to fall back on.
Politicians of all major parties were recently embarrassed by an expenses scandal. And today, our Prime Minister is embroiled in a scandal over press corruption. We can no longer assume, therefore, that politicians act with the purest intentions.
INTRODUCING THE JUDGES' CHARTER ...
With the courts upholding this simple checklist, politicians could aim to provide more, but they would never be able to give us less. Nor should they want to.
After eight centuries of toil, this constant tinkering with our most basic liberties has to stop.
Someone must be trusted.
Let it be the judges.
"There are deep problems in our society; a growing sense that individual rights come before anything else."
-- DAVID CAMERON, Prime Minister now.
"This is a war to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual."
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL, Prime Minister then.
