Rights Mess Makes Britain a Soft Touch

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May 15, 2006

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tonyparsons/tm_objectid=17078597&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=rights-mess-makes-britain-a-soft-touch-name_page.html

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"Human rights legislation now exists to provide protection - and free council houses - for Afghan hijackers who threatened murder. Human rights legislation now exists for a Nigerian woman - who has put bugger all into this country in terms of taxes or National Insurance - to claim that she has the right (her human right!) to a heart operation on the NHS."

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This item argues for the position Act should be repealed on the topic Human Rights Act 1998.