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What has the ECHR ever done for us?

submitted by makach

8 years ago

from the article on guardian: "Theresa May says Britain should leave the European convention on human rights, Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani expose the problems in the Conservative plan for a UK bill of rights. This satirical take on the classic Monty Python sketch asks ‘what has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?’ Apart from the right to a fair trial, freedom from slavery, freedom from torture ...
• WARNING: Contains strong language."

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The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by eric3579.

*quality funny

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

As someone has already sifted the sketch this was based on, I'll just leave this here... http://videosift.com/video/Life-of-Brian-What-have-the-Romans-done-for-us

sanderbos says...

It's a funny video.

But it's also dumb and stupid, in the sense that the ECHR may hold these values, but it's not like it *introduced* those value to the UK.
And you don't have to take my word on that, they actually discuss this starting at 2:45 in this blooming video...???

Um, that was the point of the video. Did you miss that part? That it was the whole point of the video?

It's a funny video.

But it's also dumb and stupid, in the sense that the ECHR may hold these values, but it's not like it *introduced* those value to the UK.
And you don't have to take my word on that, they actually discuss this starting at 2:45 in this blooming video...???

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