New Labour and human rights: words and deeds
You want to know about New Labour’s attitude towards human rights? Do we judge them by their words or by their deeds? Sure, Gordon Brown gave a fulsome and self-serving speech about human dignity to the Equality and Human Rights Commission the other day. But that was after his Justice Minister bowed and scraped before the Daily Mail, offering its readers the choicest cuts of the Human Rights Act.
Lord Lester, a Liberal Democrat and distinguished human rights lawyer, quit as the prime minister’s adviser on constitutional reform a month ago. In a scathing attack yesterday, he revealed for the first time how he felt tethered by the government, describing its record on human rights as “dismal and deeply disappointing”.
‘Lord Lester is regarded as the founding father of the Human Rights Act’. But you want to know about New Labour’s attitude towards human rights?
‘The Ministry of Justice said it would not be replacing him.’
(See also Philip)
Posted on December 12th, 2008 at 8:24am under Human rights, New Labour
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‘The Ministry of Justice said it would not be replacing him.’
Says it all really.
This helps a little when trying to pinpoint the differences between (Old) Labour and New Labour.
At first sight they appear to differ on just about everything, but maybe a total contempt for human rights and an apparent love for the taste of Paul Dacre’s cock would sum it up nicely.