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ECHR fight just PM shadow boxing

Monday, 22nd August 2011

Nigel Farage has condemned David Cameron for deliberately misleading people over the Human Rights Act.

"The Prime Minister says he will ‘fight in Europe for changes to the way the European Court works’. He isn’t going to fight, he is going to shadow box," said the UKIP Leader.

"He knows that to change the way that the European Court of Human Rights works requires unanimity amongst all the 27 countries of the European Union and the 20 other countries in the Council of Europe. He will not get that.

“His own Commission on a Bill of Rights, set up to look at this is designed specifically not to do the job he now claims for it.”

“One of the Commission’s members, Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky has said, ‘The key issues of Britain’s future relationship with the European Court of Human Rights and the recent decisive protest in the House of Commons against that court’s ruling on the issue of prisoner voting are not even included in the commission’s list of questions.’

“He's not getting what he says he wants in Europe, and he has even made sure that he cannot get what he says he wants here in the UK,” Farage went on.

“It is classic Cameronian fudge. Make grand sweeping statements, while knowing that you do not have, nor wish to have the ability to carry them out. All that he wants to do is convince the British people he is doing something, rather than to actually do it.

“Well it will not wash. The people of the UK are wise to his spin, they have heard his  ‘cast iron’ promises before. We won’t get fooled again," said Farage.

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