The European Court of Human Rights says that we must give prisoners the vote. But what if we just didn't? What would it do? What if fines, or compensation, or whatever were simply not paid? What would actually happen? What, exactly?
That body has also threatened in the past to find against our trials by jury and by Magistrates' Courts, on the grounds that jurors and magistrates are not what it defines as qualified judges. But most of its own judges, like most of those on the European Court of Justice, are, very tellingly, career politicians or academics who happen to hold law degrees, with little or no previous judicial experience.
This case is our opportunity to tell them where to go: we are just not doing it, and we are just not paying. Why the hell not?
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Quite. This also applies to the EU's requirement that member states sign up to the EHCR: what could they do if Britain ignored it? Expulsion would be too expensive.
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