Say no to human rights

First off, the European Convention on Human Rights and the associated court, the European Court of Human Rights, are nothing to do with the EU.

Confusingly for Brexit headbangers they all have the word 'European' in them, which makes every one of them instantly the worst thing since the invention of straight bananas.

At least, that is the generous interpretation - that ECHR haters hate the fact that the convention is another tangle of foreign red tape that has tied up our national freedom. Of course, for some it may be the 'HR' bit they object to.

The Daily Mail for example. When a couple of Romanians appealed to the court to prevent their deportation from the UK it ran a piece on its front page saying how we should bin the convention.

That is the same Daily Mail that loudly supported the Hillsborough prosecutions. The prosecutions which could not have been started without the ECHR.

So how to sort out this puzzling contradiction? Oh yes - the Romanians were foreign and they were growing cannabis. No doubt that explains it, the only problem the Daily Mail has with the ECHR is that is for everyone, not just the favoured few. Crooks, druggies and foreigners are human too - who knew?

Clearly the Daily Mail's preference would be to replace the ECHR with the FUBCRA - the Fine Upstanding British Citizens' Rights Act.