(June 25, 2016 at 10:17 am)madog Wrote: Emjay said ..... "And if Bella is part of the LGBT community, as I am"
The ECHR has championed LBGT and every other minorities wrongly differentiated against by laws, rules of Public authorities and national Courts and numerous other discriminations in the 47 member States of the Council of Europe since the 1950's.
As I have pointed out the ECHR can not bring a case against the EU because the EU failed accession which goes back to 1974 after France, the final EU member state that ratified the ECHR ....
The EU is growing and has and may well include eastern European nations, Turkey, and who knows the nations the future may bring ...
The UK is very liberal, whatever people try to make out, but even if they violate a minorities human rights they have the ECHR .... But the EU has or will have some member states that are unlikely to be any where near as liberal as the UK .... They will be voting on issues that can Direct the UK to violate the ECHR .... and as I said the EU can not be ruled on by the ECHR ...
I have provided an example for the above, although the principle I tried to point out was not taken seriously ...
Okay, my apologies. I don't know much about how the ECHR works but all I do know is we need to keep it, but I've always associated it as part and parcel of being in the EU. You're saying that's not the case... and they're actually in opposition... or can be?