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So if the 'Freedom of Association' is used to allow Trade Unions to kick out people who don't have the same political belief
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I'm not sure you're quite getting this - the HRA and ECHR stop the *government* deciding who should be allowed into trade unions. It applies to *state* entities, not private ones, and a union is a voluntary organisation of private individuals, not an arm of the state. It's amazing how few people realise this - the ECHR is essentially weaponised anti-fascism, designed by British lawyers to alert people to the kinds of laws governments pass on their way to becoming a totalitarian police state.
Anyway, if you think the ECHR is anything to do with the EU you've just hit my 'don't know anything' about it tripwire. It isn't anything to do with the EU, which incidentally is so left wing it's about to elect a President decided by the right wing of France and Germany, possibly the Belgian Prime Minister, who is, amongst other things, lauded by their local equivalent of the BNP for his, er, robust views on the desirability of inviting Turkey to join the Union. What a bunch of Commies they are, to be sure.