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Why has nobody in the UK mainstream press reported the fact that Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act would endanger the Good Friday Agreement and put at risk peace in Northern Ireland?
In May last year, the Irish government wrote a letter to the Justice Secretary Michael Gove to warn the Tories that scrapping the act may breach the Belfast Agreement terms and threaten hard-won peace and stability in the region.
Here’s the Irish Times from May 2015:
Government concern about UK plan to scrap Human Rights Act
But now the Tories have recently announced they are indeed to go ahead and scrap the act, the mainstream press in the UK hasn’t bothered to report this extremely important fact at all.
In case it harms the Tories chances at the ballot boxes tomorrow?
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this was the sole reason for voting to stay in the EU initially. now its one of many.
I despise the tories with a venom so urge everyone to never ever vote or support them in any capacity.
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What rubbish! It was reported across nearly all the mainstream media in May last year. Here’s one link for you, and there are many more if you Google it:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/12/scrapping-human-rights-act-would-breach-good-friday-agreement
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This is a very good question, and it’s one of the points made in the Channel 4 skit starring Patrick Stewart ‘What Has the EU Ever Done For Us?’ The implications of this are extremely alarming, when you consider what the British public was not told about the war in Northern Ireland. Lobster has run several features over the years about collusion between the British armed forces and Loyalist paramilitaries to assassinate Irish Republicans. There is also evidence to suggest that SAS squaddies were also being implanted in regular army units to act as assassination teams. And the Tories would have liked to adopt some of the measures used by colonialist regimes to remove indigenous support for nationalist movements, like mass internment. The only reason they didn’t was because they feared that the great British public would be horrified to see other White Brits being treated like this.
None of this makes the IRA or the Republican terrorists any the less vile themselves. But the inclusion of the European Human Rights legislation in the Northern Ireland peace agreement does provide a check against state brutality, a check that has provided the agreement with much stability. Removing it threatens to plunge the Six Counties back into further sectarian violence.
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I believe that the government knows that no matter how many vote for “Leave” it will still work out as “Remain” due to the fact that the referendum is already fixed. It could even get as close to 55% Remain and 45% to Leave *ahem*.
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beastrabban makes some interesting points, but he’s making out like the UK government were only supporting one side and not the Jew controlled IRA as well. Tell me Gerry Adams and his paedophile incest family weren’t Jews with a straight face.
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