Human Rights

 “Brexit won’t be done until all human rights have been abolished.”

Nigel Farage was on the radio again. For some reason World at One felt it important to get his view on whether the idea of sending asylum seekers who enter the country illegally to Rwanda was a good idea.

Funnily enough, he didn’t, which surprised me because it seemed like just the kind of weird ill thought out policy that he could get behind. Unfortunately, for Nige it just didn’t go far enough. According to this wannabe slave owner, what the country voted for when they voted Brexit (GET BREXIT DONE) was to remove ourselves from the European Convention of Human Rights. 

This obviously means that Brexit will never be done because this agreement has nothing to do with membership of the EU. It was a document drawn up by mainly British lawyers and backed by Winston Churchill. Then in 1996 we drew up our own Human Rights Act. 

I’m just wondering who these people are who don’t want human rights? Are they not human? Are the rumours true? Is Nigel Farage a lizard?

It’s not that, is it? It’s about giving some humans the right to abuse other humans for profit. Human rights laws are there just to remind some people that people are more important than money.

Personally, I’d like more human rights, not less.