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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Bottom line here is that the UK, is too soft a touch and an easy scapegoat. Blair's penchant for signing up to Human Rights, and our holier than thou attitidue, in trying to do everything by the book, unlike most other countries (we have the most stringent Health & Safety Regulations, food laws, etc yet most of these are based on our interpretation of European directives which other EU countires draw a veil over), has left us wide open to this sort of abuse of our culture.
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Nice bit of rhetoric you have there. The only problem with your argument is that it is totally flawed from the start. He is taking the UK to court in The Hague, not the European Court of Human Rights. Therefore it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Convention of Human Rights, it falls under the jurisdiction of the ICC. The rules would be the same for any country that he attempted to sue, be that the USA or the UK.
The reason he isn`t attempting to sue the USA is because that country doesn`t actually recognise the authority of the ICC, so what good would that do?