Farage: Cameron’s surrender
Nigel Farage, Ukip leadership candidate, comments on reports the government will implement a European Ruling allowing prisoners to vote:
“David Cameron says he is ‘exasperated’ and ‘furious’ with the way in which he has no power other than to capitulate to bullying from European Courts.
“As far as anybody can see the fact that he may allow rapists and murderers to vote is a direct consequence of Britain’s acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty, which put the European Convention on Human rights and judgements of the Court in Strasbourg into British law.
“We do not know for sure because the legal advice is not public, but if that is not the case, then he is doing it because he wants to, and damn the views of the British public.
“There is no way that the people of this country want to give prisoners the right to vote. By committing crimes they have taken themselves out of the privileges of society. When they leave prison, when they have served their dues, then those rights are returned, but not before.
“It is a disgrace that we cower before a panel of judges that have no feeling for, nor liking of our Common Law system. A system built on a thousand tears of common practice, and a system that has since the Middle Ages recognised a concept of ‘civic death’. That is your rights are forfeit if you break the law and are convicted.
“Every single Tory must feel betrayed. Mr Cameron’s foreign policy can only be described as Surrender, Surrender, Surrender.”
