REGARDING A Brindle's call last week to 'rewrite the human rights act now'.
Which bits?
Right to life, liberty, fair trial, to marry, to private and family life, free speech and peaceful protest?
Maybe the right to an education, free and fair elections, protection of property, freedom of thought, religion and belief?
Perhaps he doesn't like the 'no slavery or forced labour' section, or the 'no punishment without law' bit?
How about 'no torture, inhuman or degrading treatment'?
That is the Human Rights Act, independently passed by our parliament in 1998. It incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights which was Churchill's way of ensuring that nothing like the holocaust could happen again.
The HRA is ours, and it enshrines in law what most people think of as British values.
Leave it alone.
S Thomas, Rainford
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