MPs have reportedly voted overwhelmingly, by a majority of 212, against the proposal to give prisoners the right to vote in elections. This rejection is, apparently, not binding on the Government but will add to the pressure on it.
As well as the sheer lunacy of the proposal in the first place, and the fact that our supposedly sovereign Government us being told by a foreign court how it must behave, it is also quite shocking to realise that a vote of British MPs in the British Parliament cannot legally over-rule a judgement by a disparate group of European judges.
What has happened to our sovereignty ? If anyone wants a reason for this country to distance itself from the European project, this is surely it. Let us start arranging the divorce without further delay and begin with the nonsense of this European Human Rights Court..
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