This government may be the first in the history of liberal democracies which enacts a bill of rights which has the effect of reducing rather than increasing rights protections.
If there are other examples, please let me know!
This is like enacting a Clean Air Act which opens five new coal power stations
This is like enacting a Clean Air Act which opens five new coal power stations
If I was responsible for these proposals I would be embarrassed. The idea that public authorities can't breach rights if implementing primary legislation. Or making human rights claims harder to bring by adding needless bureaucracy. Removing rights entirely from certian people...
This is not some culture war debate. It's messing with people's lives, their fundamental rights, their ability to seek redress from the state when it breaches them.
Nb. the proposals I mentioned in the third tweet have all been added by the government and were *not* recommended by its own independent expert review of the Human Rights Act.
These are my more detailed first thoughts on both the bill of rights consultation and the Independent Human Rights Act Review
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1470711294881841152?s=20
Thread on what the Human Rights Act has done for us (a lot more than the government might admit)
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1060779149139288064?s=20
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