Have The Echr Heard Of Common Sense?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31356895
Who in their right mind can possibly conclude that prisoners should have the vote? Only the European court of Anti British c0bbl3rs! (ECABC)!

[retrocop]

You are spinning.
I said as a result of serving in Afghanistan these soldiers ended up in custody.
I have provided 3 links to substantiate that and you insist it is rubbish and nonsense.
If these servicemen were safely at home in Lympstone, Hereford and Church Cookham instead of Afganistan they would not of ended up in custody.
Enough said on this off topic subject

[Zacs-Master]

If anyone is interested in some facts (unusual on here, I know) the ECtHR situation is not as simple as it may seem:
While the European Court of Human Rights is a legal body - the Council of Europe is political and has to try to keep everyone onside.
London was one of the most important architects of the post-war human rights system and Strasbourg simply doesn't want to provoke a crisis with a nation so central to improving the rule of law around the world.

The worst-case scenario is the UK, if provoked, would refuse to abide by the judgement - something that no country has ever done. That could then be used by less enlightened member states to ignore far more serious breaches of human rights. The UK could threaten to walk away - as some on the right want it to do - and the system would come crashing down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29378938

[Gromit]

// If these servicemen were safely at home in Lympstone, Hereford and Church Cookham instead of Afganistan they would not of ended up in custody. //

They would if they murdered someone in Lympstone, Hereford or Church Cookham.

[ToraToraTora]

"// The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population. //" - well gromit excells his anti britishness! I don't care how they ended up in one of HMHCs the fact is they did and they should not be voting, end of.

[ToraToraTora]

as far as I can tell from the right on apologists above, they should have the vote as long as their crime is acceptably minor to the right on apologists, right oh!

[retrocop]

TTT
As I wrote yesterday on another post. He would support the devil incarnate providing he had established his non British credentials first of course.

[youngmafbog]

And 'minor' to many of the sandal wearing right-on brigade is any crime.

As you ay, if in jail - no vote, end of.