I invite you to compare this story with this one.
The European Court of Human Rights has said individual governments can decide how to implement a ban on convicted prisoners voting. The judgement means the UK will be able to decide for itself how to resolve the long-standing row over votes for inmates.
Or then again…
The European Court of Human Rights upheld a previous ruling that a blanket ban on inmates being able to vote was unlawful.
I suppose it’s all about the angle being spun…can you guess which is the BBC story?
Surely the point of this, as it is in so many other stories, is that our government and media with the BBC firmly ahead by a full length, are fussing over a story which should read “why the hell are we pandering to this useless, corrupt, unelected, left wing, ex-nazi, overpaid so called Eurocrat elite gangsters”?
It is bad enough that our own legal system is full of daft judges and magistrates but who the devil is: ‘The European Court of Human Rights’ to us in Great Britain? No one on this island could name one of them and apparently even the selection of our British candidate is held in secret. The Mafia is more open and honest than that European lot across the English Chanel. I wouldn’t trust any of them with next doors cat.
We have sleep walked into slavery whilst our Prime Ministers, all of them, have simply played at the job, sold us for peanuts and then left to fill their own coffers.
So even when the Eurotwerps say that it`ll be up to the Government, the BBC still have to try to raise the antions blood pressure by implying that prisoners have won their case in Strasbourg.
Really hope someone eventually sues them for the death or illness of somebody who actually believed their Eeyore wind up stuff, and ended up very unwell as a consequence.
No wonder the BBC rely so much on the NHS being the other sacred cow in the Socialist lavender fields.
In a democracy, giving criminals the vote would be serious. In present day Britain it is meaningless.
“Last February, MPs backed a motion opposing the European judgment by a 234 to 22. ”
Proof if proof be needed that parliament is a club for the elite not a place where laws are made.
What a pity the BBC doesn’t see the criminal’s point of view when it comes to the heinous crime of declining to pay for dross like Eastenders, Casualty, Celebrity Come Dancing or the Chris Moyles Show on one of its many 24/7 pop music stations.
Those sinister letters it sends out from its revenue collection department are from the hang ’em and flog ’em school of criminal justice, not the ‘it’s society’s fault’ attitude so often peddled by the corporation.
Is It a human right, to decline to pay for a service, one does not use?
The reason the BBC spun it this way is because it then looks bad for the Coalition Government. In BBC land, every little helps….