Yesterday, at the opening of a judicial review, his lawyer, Hugh Southey, asked a judge at the High Court to scrap the blanket ban on serving prisoners voting - which dates back to 1870 – in order to make the law "compatible" with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Less than a month ago, a British woman finally managed to get her rapist deported after ten long years. The Home Office wanted to deport the man, an immigrant from Africa, but the European Courts said that would be in violation of his Right to a Family. The victim fought against the decision for years.
It's no wonder that 61% of the British public want to scrap The Human Rights Act that came into effect in 2000.
Even in Britain, the law has been bizarre under Labour. Recently, the Ministry of Justice ruled that prisoners "on the run" cannot be identified because it would breach their rights to privacy. Even wheel clamping is in violation of Human Rights. (Go figure.)
It's a mark of the coarsening of British culture that binge drinking, by both men and "ladettes" (an inelegant term for women who drink like drunken louts) is a major problem and that police officers on foot patrol will be armed for the first time in "no go" zones in crime-ridden council estates. And not just any guns. They will be carrying Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns – capable of firing up to 800 rounds-per-minute – and Glock semi-automatic pistols.
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