JOHN DOUGLAS, who is so angry about the European Union (Common Market
to him), is mistaken in nearly all the facts which underpin his anger
(February 3).
The recently reported case of UK citizens the European Commission on
Human Rights believes were falsely imprisoned for non-payment of poll
tax has nothing to do with the European Union.
The European Convention on Human Rights was made through the Council
of Europe (inaugurated at St James's Palace, London, on May 5, 1949) by
European Governments led by Britain, determined to create institutions
which could act to protect all the peoples of Europe against a
recurrence of the kind of tyranny which had just been defeated.
Fifty years after the liberation of Belsen by the British Army, does
Mr Douglas really want us to turn our backs on the European Convention
for Human Rights? A lot more is at stake than whether English
magistrates can send poll tax debtors to prison without a fair trial.
Christopher Mason,
Leader, Liberal Democrat
Group, Strathclyde Regional
Council,
20 India Street,
Glasgow.
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