[G. Adams]

Everytime I read about the worry caused by American rights being stood all over and how bad this is, in UK press, I wonder why no-one even mentions why we in Britain don't have ANY real rights. Nothing entrenched like the US Bill of Rights. Our Bill of Rights has been so undermined over the years it means nothing. The Human Rights Act of 2000 that makes the European Convention on Human Rights can be overturned overnight should the government want to, though it wouldn't need to because just about everything on the list has the same clause at the end of it

'There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others'

making them worthless.

And our secret services have been jumping on the rights of activists and left wingers with glee for decades. The government recently revealed that during the 70's that MI5 had compiled blacklists of left wingers that were distributed to employers, and these people were never employed again through the militant union years.