DaveSmith

This is just pure rubbish on what ECHR is about - and it is bizarre that you would not know it. The whole master-slave framing you are painting is ridiculous and deliberately misleading. These are rights first proposed by Winston Churchill and the European Movement - later codified by the likes of Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (a Scots Conservative). It is an assertion of common values that we set forward and encouraged others to sign up to, alongside ourselves. Those rights are fundamental and you are suggesting we jeopardise them *without* sign-off from the public. So it is an undemocratic move you are trying to force without explicit public support for such a move. What you are trying to throw away here is the Rule of Law. You have no interest in the sovereignty of Parliament - because in 2019, you tried to suspend the sovereignty of Parliament - lying to the Queen in order to do so - and it was only our courts, ultimately in the form of a unanimous decision by our Supreme Court, that re-established the sovereignty of Parliament against your will. You therefore have no philosophical loyalty to the "sovereignty of Parliament" about which you now espouse and only deploy a confidence trickster's faux loyalty to principles as and when they are expedient to your personal preferences and power. The ECHR is British in origin. It is our heritage and our standards. If you cannot operate by our British values, you should not be in our Parliament.