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"Madam President, not as big a sigh of relief as the British public would! Yes, Mr Cashman, I agree with you. The Convention on Human Rights was actually written by British lawyers in the early 1950s. It was the Labour Party that signed the Human Rights Act, which enshrined it in British law. That was in 1998.
What it actually did was to empower every court, from the most minute up to the Supreme Court (no longer the House of Lords), to apply these human rights, and the judges have taken political jurisprudence. They have not gone along with the public or the elected government. That has to be wrong. In a democracy it should be the will of the people that reigns supreme.
If you talk about human rights, Mr Cashman, I want to point out one Labour politician, our High Representative Catherine Ashton – a Labour Party card-carrying member – who refused to do anything about the corrective rape of lesbians in Palestine. That is a disgrace."@en1
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