LETTER: To educate you…

In response to Phillip James of Fleet Hargate.
Well this is a bit embarrassing isn’t it?
It’s a perfect example of the sort of low educational level, and ignorance which gave us the Brexit shambles.
To educate you – the ECHR has nothing to do with the EU.
In the early 1940s, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill raised the idea of a ‘Council of Europe’. In the wake of World War II, and the idea behind the Council of Europe was to set up an international organisation to promote democracy, the rule of law and human rights.
The Council was established by ten states, including the United Kingdom, on May 5, 1949.
One of the key writers of the European Convention on Human Rights was British Conservative MP and lawyer David Maxwell-Fyfe.

Pam Thompson
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