Thank heavens for Ed Miliband, eh? The leader of the opposition remains the single most compelling reason to hope the Conservatives remain in power next May.
A shame, then, that cabinet ministers appear determined to promote the idea that a Labour victory would be garlanded with at least some silver promise. Chiefly, Chris Grayling would no longer serve as Justice Secretary. This is a non-trivial consideration that’s worth pondering before anyone casts their ballot next May.
There is some dispute over whether the Conservative’s plans to rewrite Britain’s human rights legislation can really deliver all they promise; some disagreement, therefore, over whether they’re as dangerous as they initially appear. Is a half-baked nonsense worse than a fully-baked monstrosity?
I is no lawyer but there is, nonetheless, a simple test by which we may measure the importance and usefulness of Grayling’s plan to decouple England from the European Court of Human Rights and, perhaps, in time, from the European Convention on Human Rights too.
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