EU: Should the UK Leave or Stay?

[emjay]

So you think the EU as a political entity has the monopoly on human rights?

Fuck sake, this is just another example of people not knowing a damn thing about what they're talking about. You really think that we need the EU to safeguard human rights?

No, not exactly but I do see it as a safeguard against rash and fickle decision-making about policy, stopping the likes of the BNP and UKIP from getting their (right wing) way over issues that happen to grab the public imagination for a short time. Basically I see public opinion here as very volatile, and I think having a kind of 'federal' law stops us acting in the heat of the moment without thinking things through and stops right wing parties getting a foothold.

If we were out of it and they replaced the Human Rights Act with the proposed Bill of Rights what's the catch? It's presumably to remove something from it and if that's the case, what's to stop it happening again... and again... digging away at it little by little... till it barely resembles a list of rights at all? All at the whim of the current leadership and the current popular mood whoever and whatever they may be.