Pulling out

THERE seems to be much talk about the Tories pulling the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), but I wonder how many ordinary people in the UK really understand what the ECHR stands for and its history.
The ECHR was a response to a global war which had included the horrors of the Holocaust.
Its origin also belongs to a line in the development of human rights which can be traced back much further.
The political philosophy and human rights agenda of the allied powers after the Second World War shaped both the selection of rights protected and the machinery for their protection.
The ECHR, as a result of the Second World War, was introduced in the early 1950s and was signed up to on behalf of the UK by Sir Winston Churchill long before the Common Market was created.
The main purpose of the ECHR is to protect the basic rights of the individual against the excesses of a totalitarian government.
It gives individuals a means of securing their right to the basic freedoms that come from democratic government and peaceful existence.
I ask that people take time to examine what we stand to lose should the Tories repeal the Human Rights Act, which will in effect abolish the ECHR and replace it with a Bill of Rights controlled only by the UK government, with many rights under the European model seriously restricted.
The internet is a very useful tool for people to gain knowledge of the true nature of the ECHR and I beg them to obtain the knowledge needed to form a knowledgeable understanding of what is at stake.