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[pedant mode]It is a decision of the European Court of Human Rights which is not an EU body. Europe doesn't have to mean the EU and vice versa[/pedant mode]
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Yes, agreed but to me it's 'them' again telling 'us' what to do!
And how do you feel when your wife tells you what to do?
Point being, the EU is a partnership with compromises and give and take.
Mercedes are kind enough to make RHD cars and export them to the UK. That's not such a bad trade off
Actually it is us telling government what to do. The whole point of human rights legislation is to defend individuals from excessive power of the state.
I believe 30% of car owning countries drive on the left...Mercedes are doing us no particular favours.
I understand the sentiment of your post but what 'crimes' would you seperate? You say 'non criminal such as motoring'. What about drink driving? Dangerous driving? Like I say, I do understand where you are coming from but it isn't easy seperating 'criminality'.Understood, but I don't think it should be determined on the sentence of any criminal. In fact I would take it exactly the other way and that is the moment you're found guilty of a criminal offence (note criminal not civil or non criminal such as motoring), no matter what the offence, you lose your voting rights for life. In fact given my way, you'd lose a lot more, but clearly I'm a nasty horrible person that doesn't care about his fellow humans
Let me tell you how screwed up our voting systems are. My wife, which some of you have met, is from Germany. She has lived in the UK for 19 years (yesterday in fact) as is her right within the EU. She has always wanted to maintain her German nationality as is also her right. However, get this... she can't vote in a general election in either country now!!!!
She can't vote in Germany because she isn't resident there and she can't vote here because she's German. Nope. Our government will gladly allow her to pay taxes, count her on the electoral roll, collect her council tax etc. but allow her to vote? No!!!
Europe needs to get it's act together for the law abiding citizens before it even cares one jot about its criminals.
I understand the sentiment of your post but what 'crimes' would you seperate? You say 'non criminal such as motoring'. What about drink driving? Dangerous driving? Like I say, I do understand where you are coming from but it isn't easy seperating 'criminality'.
With regards 'criminals' voting, the situation baffles me, in all honesty. I would hazard a guess that most won't even bother voting because if you can't mobilize the general 'law-abiding public' to vote in any great numbers, how do they expect to get prisoners to?
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