I've just heard that the 70,000 people serving custodial sentences will soon have the right to vote. This decisions is being forced on us by the European Court of Human Rights and has been fought be both the current and last governments, we face multi million pound fine s if we do not comply.
When someone is sent to prison some of their rights are temporarily curtailed, the right to a private life and the right to free movement for example. The idea that in prison you should expect all the same rights that you had on the outside is laughable. In the UK we have decided that the right to vote is one of the rights which is curtailed in our system. I cannot understand why the ECHR feels the need to dictate in this area.
Many people will feel justifiably outraged that this hugely significant change has been forced on us by Europe and added to the 2.9% European budget increase will further shift public opinion in an increasingly anti EU direction.
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It doesn't need things like votes for rapists and taking even more money to convince me that we should leave - they just reinforce it.
I want my referendum.
Is this really that objectionable?
Personally I'm only concerned with why they offended in the first place and what can be done to ensure that those given custodial sentences do not offend in the future.
How you treat those you imprison is important. We must establish a clear difference between the prisoners and the imprisoners. Without some form of moral superiority what right do we have to lock people up?
This is a small issue yet very emotive issue and I think there are far more pressing matters when it comes to dealing with those convicted of criminal offences than whether or not they should be allowed to vote.
I'm sure the bleeding heart liberal Guardian reading minority will be happy with this ridiculous ruling. As we all know, they are only ever concerned about the 'human rights' of the criminals. It's about time they spared some thought for the victims.
I thought that Cameron told us that 2.9% was a great victory for his government.
You will be aware that the European Court of Human Rights is a completely seperate institution from the EU, so whilst it might shift public opinion against the EU, this will only be the ignorant people who don't understand what the EU actually does.
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