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The other day, I saw this post on Facebook. Here, Paul writes to Jeremy Corbyn to ask him to campaign for zero-hour contracts “to be banned for all industries where quality, consistency and reliability of service is to vulnerable or dependent people?”
During her catastrophic election campaign, in a speech talking about tackling terrorism and extremism, Theresa May pledged, ‘If our human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change the laws so we can do it.’ Here, she was suggesting, that Human Rights are a threat to our national security, that somehow the Human Rights Act helps to protect terrorists and puts ordinary citizens at risk. This could not be further from the truth. Firstly, the rights that Theresa May is claiming protect terrorists are the right to a fair trial and the right not to be tortured. Removing these allows the government to spend less on the police or security services because they don’t have to go through the ‘hassle’ of making sure they’ve got the right person. It allows them to act without any accountability, saving money and putting ordinary citizens, like you and me, at risk.
… Continue readingWhy We Can’t Let Theresa May Rip Up the Human Rights Act
Do you have the power to change the world?
If you did, what would you change?
It’s a big question – because let’s face it, there is a lot that is wrong with the world today. Theresa May wants to scrap the Human Rights Act, over 10,000 innocent people have killed in the last 5 years which has caused what the United Nations is calling ‘the biggest refugee and displacement crisis of our time’, hundreds of men in Chechnya have been abducted and tortured because they are gay, I could go on… It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that there is nothing we can do the change this.
But what if we can?
