O/T For those who claim that the BBC is left wing.

[KerrAvon]

The Human Rights Act 1998 which incorporated it gave more rights to criminals, they seem to get treated better than victims of crime now because of it, and Mrs Blair made out like a bandit, loads of work for other Human Rights lawyers as well, you wouldn't be one by any chance?

I'm afraid that's cobblers, gf.

The UK was one of the first signatories to the ECHR in 1951 (hardly surprising since we wrote it) and we accepted the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in 1960 (hence such landmark cases as Ireland v UK in 1978 and Sunday Times v UK in 1979).

The Human Rights Act (enacted by Parliament rather than Tony Blair) merely imposed an obligation upon British Courts to have regard to the ECHR when interpreting domestic law.

As for criminals being treated better than victims. What do you have in mind? The only Article that has a direct bearing upon criminal law is Article 6 - the right to a fair trial. Are you saying that you think fair trials are a bad idea? Wouldn't you want one if you were accused of a crime? In practise, it has had little bearing upon UK criminal law as various items of UK law were already in place to ensure a fair trial.

But let’s not get distracted from the issue; what is wrong with your right to freedom of expression under Article 10.