Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2016
- After Theresa May says Britain should leave the European convention on human rights, Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani expose the problems in the Conservative plan for a UK bill of rights.
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This satirical take on the classic Monty Python sketch asks ‘what has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?’ Apart from the right to a fair trial, freedom from slavery, freedom from torture ...
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In 2016 this was comedy. Now it's drama documentary.
Brilliant video. I can even forgive it being stolen from Monty Python's "what have the Romans ever done for us" sketch from The Life of Brian.
I just shared it on Jeff Taylor's channel. I can just picture his racist supporters smiling and cheering at the beginning and then gradually becoming quieter and their smiles turning to frowns as the video progresses.
@@ianl1052 Well... There's the part about domestic violence...
@@ianl1052 If done with permission and reference, it's not stolen.
@@Edelgul1717
True, I should have said borrowed. Besides, doesn't parody enjoy a certain artistic freedom?😉
@@ianl1052 It does, and they don't need the blessings. But looks like the blessings were obtained, even if JC was pro-Brexiter.
if only we lived in a world where we actually had Sir Patrick Stewart as the PM
Without the "Sir".
Only two other countries have left the ECHR - Greece, during it's military junta (after which it rejoined), and Russia, after it's invasion of Ukraine...
And then there's Belarus who was never in...
And soon the U. K....
Russia didn't leave. They were suapended.
@@lvoldum Because Belarus didn’t exist when it was created… it remained annexed by the USSR until the fall of the Soviet Union, bud.
@@Living_Dead_Girrl Belarus and Ukraine were able to participate in international organisations during their time within the USSR - most prominently, they were distinct member states of the UN, separate from the USSR.
RUclips picked the best time to recommend this video x3
Well.... They did build the aqueducts
+iWeeGouldyi And wine!
- Oh yes! Yes!
- Wine!
+Aleksander Helgesen And the sanitation
+iWeeGouldyi yes...yes but apart from the aquaducts the sanitation and the wine what have tje romans ever done for us.............. The roads?
+THUG performance review brought peace?
THUG - The Romans didn't build the roads and aquaducts, the EU did. Please try to keep up with this revisionist history lesson.
He's not the prime minister, he's a very naughty boy.
Please take my cookie in a symbolic gesture of my gratatude.
You are an absolutely perfect humanbeing I wish I could be like you
I can be naughty at night time
The rest of the world will be happy if we never see Britain’s Johnson carrying on in front of a camera again.
Listening to this in late 2021 and hearing calls in parliament for the suspension of human rights, this video was so prescient in it's warning of the dangers of autocracy.
...and 2022 once again.
so painfully true
yeah but it was "project fear"
And in 2023 😢
After Braverman's Tory conference '23 xenophobic Hurricane rant the scrapping of the ECHR and human rights will be in their 2024 GE manifesto no doubt.
No one expects the European Convention On Human Rights!
This is for those that made comments about Brexit: The European Convention for Human Rights is completely separate from the European Union. This is an international treaty drafted in the middle of the 20th century, signed by most of the countries in Europe, including states that are not part of the European Union (such as Russia). The European Court of Human Rights is also a completely separate entity from the European Court for Justice, operating from Strasbourg. The ECHR issue is separated from the EU, leaving one would not necessarily impact the other.
+Teodor Ontanu esti deacord ca acest clip, desi se rezerva la ECHR, face totusi parte dintr-o campanie mai larga pro-EU / anti-brexit? (nu ca ar fi rea aceasta pozitie, si eu o impartasesc)
+Teodor Ontanu Wrong. "All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity." (Source: Wikipedia). You can leave the EU without leaving ECHR but not vice versa.
+nuke16000 The Council of Europe is not the EU :) Russia is part of the Council of Europe while not being part of the EU.
+upublic Nu, nu sunt de acord. Partidul Conservator sustine ramanerea in EU dar doreste sa retraga Marea Britanie din ECHR.
Sure, this is not directly about brexit. It is a parable which says that something that seems to be Brussels dictatorship imposed on the UK is actually British influence imposed on the EU.
Just watched this for the first time - Never has this been more relevant than now, with Johnson and our present bunch of grifters in charge.
And supported by so many short-sighted haters. :/
Johnson doesn't seem to be the one causing this :/
@@Mel-mu8ox Really? Then who, might I ask, is? And since Johnson is *supposed* to be the PM of the UK, perhaps he could, you know, maybe, have a word? Just a thought...
I'd say its the ppl whose after his job that are causing it. been happening for a while now.
yes, have a world... hay, you backstabber... please don't stab me..
baskstabber gets offended and complains to everyone they meet about how horrible you are...
@@Mel-mu8ox it's Johnson trying to worm his way out of the GFA, and the DUP who are behind this, so they recognise NI as a wholey British state. Johnson is very much behind this along with his ministers, to try and deflect and using the DUP for his own gain.
Farage: I want us to leave the ECHR and I pinky promise I'll give you all these rights back.
With Raab's recent statement of intent, this needs to do the rounds again!
What has the ECHR done for Mutant Rights! Nothing I tell you, nothing!
+stefanos2691 Hey, we really love our mutations. I´d like to see you, climbing The Wall without a pair of extra-hands.
As a Mutant , I tell you '' Fok off ! ''
Shhh you are giving Farage ammunition.
Every one is a mutant!
That's funny. I'm just watching apocalypse right now
I love this riff on the Monty Python sketch about Romans. Works for lots of contexts.
Everyone is here complaining about the EU debate, but this video actually addresses Cameron's wish to abolish the ECHR in Britain and adopt a 'British Bill of Rights'...Wonder what's going to be left off?
yeah i mean I've read the bill when I was in high school and there's really honestly nothing to add, but to take away however..
They really want to change the freedom from slavery clauses (no really) so that for example people can be forced to work for benefits
They'll likely remove the privacy thing as it's the only thing protecting us from their snoopers charter
+Balist0 What, you mean they want people to work for money?!... the fucking cheek.
+Ryan Docherty Freedom of speech should be more akin to the First Amendment in the US as opposed to what we have now, which is more of a qualified right.
Watching this on 2nd July 2024, two days before the General Election, and it seems like we're finally about to put those dark days behind us.
Watched this on the 9th July.....and just watched Farage in the Houses of Parliament as an MP 🤢🤮
@@Jeff-q4uDon’t you think some of those human right should be removed from him, Farage that is? NSW in Oz
No actually, human rights cant be revoked, by design, not even to him
Patrick Stewart for PM
Make it so!
Hear hear!
But just as Jean-Luc Picard :D
PM of the WORLD! With the global foolishness going on at the moment I'm game to give it a try.
He's in the process of applying for American Citizenship, sadly. Havent heard an update on that front so it might have already gone through. So, no, cant have an American citizen as a British Prime Minister :(
To the apparently befuddled:
Yes, the ECHR and the EU are different things. But that's not the point.
The point is about making decisions not based in the real world, based on emotion or Xenophobia rather than facts.
@@williamnation-dixon7743 Sure, sure.
"And what a palaver that would be."
And yet, the palaver is not ever and the date of the brexit is getting re-scheduled over and over again.
@@williamnation-dixon7743 I'm sure I'm not reading your comment correctly because it seems to say that you don't mind foreigners but you don't like courts that are run by foreigners. That can't be right because you are no doubt aware that the ECHR is not a foreign court, it is as British as it is French or German. To accuse it of being foreign is equivalent to accusing a British court of being foreign on the grounds that it doesn't solely represent my corner of the UK.
Further, a British Bill of Human Rights would be incredibly easy for a government to tare up while placing a few fundamental rights at the European level grants us a level of immunity to that as it would require despotic governments to arise in other European states.
Now I am sure that you are going to reply with a well-reasoned comment explaining why a British human rights bill would be better for the country which is the point: to explain why something is not good based on facts not based on the grounds "we don't like foreign stuff".
Will Nation-Dixon err British judges sit in the Europe court you do know that. And you do need a referee at some point to settle disagreements between member states and disagreements between the EU and it’s citizens. I wouldn’t want to live without the opportunity of legal recourse and given the actions of the current U.K. government I’d want to be bring it to book seeing as it has no problem treating parliament with contempt. We have been given rights under European law that our own government doesn’t give us, you should read up on them you’ll be surprised what has been kept quiet.
Will Nation-Dixon oh dear so you’re saying we don’t need judges especially if they haven’t been elected. Next you’ll be saying we don’t need experts 🙄
@@williamnation-dixon7743 Don't bother with the types that intentionally misread your words then twist them and put them in your mouth. The treasonous lot seem very apt at doing just that.
Monty Python Life of Brian "What have the Romans done for us..."
Well, the aqueducts for one.
@@maxhess3151 what
and the wine!
And Reform think we need to leave 😂
If we had proportional representation they'd have beat the Tories.
If we had proportional representation they'd have beat the Tories.
Yes, because allowing the rulings of a foreign court to have influence over national law and government policies is utterly r*tarded... The people of the UK voted to leave the EU, which includes their politically motivated "courts" which has a long track record of helping terrorists, paedophiles, rapists and murderers evade justice...
If you had proportional representation the tories would not have been in power for 14 years and things would be completely different.
@@Competitive_Antagonist errrrr no...
Eight years on... nothing ever changes.
Ah... Patrick Stewart can always deliver great lines. The last line gets me.
I was convinced this was a new video. Until I saw the date... Come on YT, put it on everyone's watch list.
That was the best script I have ever done.
I don't know if you're the real Sir Patrick Stewart or not... But it was definitely up there among the best.
That laser-guided, precision F-Bomb strike at the end made my guts hurt laughing when this first came out, and it still does. It's such a shame the UK didn't listen.
As an American, I would LOVE Sir Patrick Stewart in office.
As an actual American, I know that *real* Americans on the internets never start out a sentence with “As an American,” nor call a single knighted (or whatever) British celebrity by their title. We call Elton John, “Elton John,” not “Sir Elton John.” We don’t even know whose a “Sir” 99.9% of the time anyways. We cut all ties to that kingdom long ago. And we’re still trying.
Make it so
Patrick Stewart's delivery at the very end gets me every time 🤣
Worth it just to hear Picard swear
*PassiveSmoking* Then you'll love American Dad !
I want to hear Sir Pat say horsefucker
@Kevin McDougall I'll take that 😁. Nearest I've had previous was on set I did hear Toby Jones say Rusty Sheriff's Badge.
Let himself down
There's also a short film by Omeleto on yt in which Data swears a few times if you're interested
The part about Northern Ireland didn't age well.
What have the Romulans ever done for us ??
Romulan ale :)
Well considering the distance of the Hobus system from Sol and some Romulan commander saying they have very effective torture methods especially for humans despite no assignable evidence of previous contact i'd say they might be responsible for the UFO movement here on earth doing some 'research' on us..
Oh and the peace with the Klingons that lasted some century... Tasha can tell you all about this once she is born and has gone back in time .. if you make it to Hobus that is ...
Love Romulans...
Helped fight the Dominion.
Technologically revolutionized the cloaking device
I explicitly searched for this sketch again. In these times more people should watch this.
This is quite brilliant. Many thanks to Patrick Stewart and company!
One part Monty Python, one part Yes, Minister. Love it. XD
I don't get it, they didn't have all those rights before joining EU? that sounds unlikely
They had the rights the thing is that the Conservatives were suggesting getting rid of the ECHR and replacing it with a 'British Bill of Rights', the question is what would that really do beyond being a PR stunt. The ECHR is what we'd basically make anyway, it's largely what we had before, it's what we helped make. Also the ECHR and the EU are two separate things, we joined the ECHR long before joining the EU. If we left the EU we wouldn't necessarily be leaving the ECHR.
But my question (being a complete non- European and only having basic knowledge of the history over my many years) is how is EU equated with ECHR? (never even heard of ECHR until just now)
They aren't really. The EU practically requires everyone one to sign up to the ECHR (because arguably it's a good way to make sure those rights and values are upheld by a single court), but the ECHR was first established in 1959 and has currently been recognised by 47 states as opposed to the 28 states of the EU. The EU is a union of various things for right or wrong depending on who you ask. The ECHR has the role of enshrining 'human rights', defending those and judging cases on them. The EU is more political and trade based. I can't really explain in detail without turning this into an essay, but that's the gist of it.
Sorry I got the date slightly wrong. The European Convention was signed in 1950 and made effective in 1953, the European Court of Human Rights was established in 1959.
The ECHR has nothing to do with the EU, it is seperate. The only thing in common is the word 'European'.
as much as I like Monty Python, this is genuinely better satire than the scene it’s spoofing
no
No one does it better than Monty Python.
They stole from the best ..
Well the Monty Python one is broad and meant to be imposed onto many situations.
"But, other than all that, what have the Romans ever done for us?!?"
How can you not appreciate Patrick Stewart?
Rishi Sunak should have to watch this 24/7
DONT WORRY CAPTAIN I WONT LET THOSE PESKY ROMULANS GET MY OIL
this is one of the greatest things on youtube, no matter how many times I see this I cant stop laughing.
Except it's not true.
@@hus390 what isnt true? that Patrick Stewart did a comedy sketch poking fun at politicians?
Watching this in 2023 after Braverman has said her bill doesn't conform to the ECHR and the right wingers are baying for us to withdraw, this has become horribly relevant again.
Patrick Stewart channeling Monty Python.
Now I can die happy.
Britain helped to make it so.
Engage!!
Who is watching this in 2022.... when the real PM of Britain has just suggested actually leaving the ECHR for real?
So appropriate in June 2022.
Absolutely brilliant. The government should be absolutely ashamed of itself
Why?
You could easily repeat this sketch in the US for unions, the WTO, the Geneva Conventions, the Civil Rights Act, Social Security, Medicare just to name a few... 'what have they/has it ever done for us?'
The unions in the United States do not serve the working class. The unions serve the corporations and are used to keep the workers under control. This is how much they have degenerated from being workers' protectors.
Patrick Stewart is a LEGEND!
There is nothing more heartwarming than Patrick Stewart outtakes.
I love Monty-Pythonian-humour and of course Patrick Stewart! :D
Ironic how John Cleese can't do Monty Python anymore exactly because of today's culture, encouraged by the European Union, Monty Python is composed of too many white men.
@Paul B There was a comment before about Monty Python, and I responded to it.
What? Monty would be a great success even today! Your doubt is heretical, I bet you weigh as much as a duck!
@@Max1715 Please point to any European provision, be it in a treaty, directive, regulation, or judgement, that limits the number of white men in quite literally anything?
British abolished slavery, not the EU.
Peace in Northern Ireland just got me! Awesome
Can someone make sure Sunak sees this?
Love you Patrick Stewart, what a great video - thanks for getting involved in it. I'm sure many people wouldn't hear this argument if you weren't in it :)
Right to a fair trial is in the Magna Carta, a few years before anybody dreamed up the ECHR.
Magna Carter was English. Westminster and Henry 8th Laws also English foisted onto Scotland. No wonder England voted to leave. NOT forgetting E.R.G and 1922 Committee safe guarding offshore Havens for their PRIVATE manipulations, more important let the people die!!
@@robertgalloway3771 Haha, oh dear, are you bitter about something?
For the Barons, not the plebes.
Correct.
Correct myself. Ha ha.
After half a century Monty Python still Happily Effects The World....
And Now For Something Completely Different...
Hmmmm ... ummmm .....just so as people know.... The European Court of Human Rights is NOT a part of the EU. It is a separate entity. If the UK leaves the EU the we would STILL be in the European Court of Human Rights...
The European Court of Human Rights is part of the Council of Europe, a completely separate organisation to the European Union. The UK is a founding member of the Council of Europe, which was created in 1949 by the Treaty of London.
I keep trying to tell people this but they are not getting it :(
So what? Thats not the main point of the video.
The video was a piece of establishment propaganda designed to keep is in the "EU" ... how did that go for them? Did they really think that the British People would not expose this propaganda by explaining the actual setup of the EU as outlined in my original post?
People only need to read the description to see why it may have been put up. Argue all you want, but if you think this was effective propaganda for people to convince people to vote Remain then you're not giving people a lot of credit. A quick search on ECHR will quickly dispell any notion that membership of it is tied to membership of the EU. At least this video clearly outlines some decent reasons to question leaving the ECHR.
Now, I would agree with you that they could have used better timing. It woul have been more fair to the public to make a similar one regarding EU membership. But regarless the fact that theres even one British MP arguing for leaving the ECHR is sufficient reason to try an point at some reasons why peope may not actually want that. One would say, if only the Leave and Remain campaigns had been as clear.
In case you haven't been paying attention, Theresa May wants to leave the ECHR. Which would be insane, because the signing the ECHR is mandatory for being part of the Counsel Of Europe, which is far bigger than the EU. It's impossible to leave the ECHR and try to make a trade deal with the EU.
So you're telling me that before the implementation of the Convention, Britain didn't have this already? It's like paying for possessing an organ in my body
Exactly, Observer. This video is so incredibly dishonest.
Oh man. Love the Monty Python's Life of Brian rework. Splitters!
SPLITTERS
And now I love Patrick Stuart even more!!!
This is and will always be a funny sketch because it's true.
With Brexit, it lost it's fun imho and became far to real. Especially the issues about the Good Friday Agreement.
@@Traumglanz its Black Friday you mean right gov?
Yeah, it's "true" that the ECHR ended torture in Britain.
Give me a break.
Yes because without the EU we would still have slavery.
I'm just shocked seeing professor x standing up.
+The Goombrat clearly you've deleted "x-men origins wolverine" from your memory ;)
And X3
+The Goombrat also good for you captain picard also wolvrine orgins is a bad movie but has one of the most relistic science bits near the end
game theory?
@@BrynBarton Who hasn't
Monty Python keeps on giving.
Such briliance.
How many people came here, today, the 15th June 2022, to watch history in the making..?
Just when I thought I couldn't like Patrick Stewart any more than I already do.
ECHR gave us these things? So before the 1970s Britain was an unfree country? I think you'll find many of these modern freedom originated and have been codified in British law long before there was the idea of the ECHR.
the ECHR was established in 1953
Did you actually watch the video?
For those who are confused about how this applies to the EU Referendum / 'Brexit':
-Britain was the first country to sign the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 1950, years before the EU was founded and over 2 decades before Britain joined the EU (what was then just a 'Common Market')
-The ECHR was promoted by Churchill, and it is a legally binding international agreement. 46 other countries have signed up to it. It is completely separate to the European Union.
-Voting Leave will not mean the end of the ECHR
+RP FS2 The Brexit will not mean to leave the ECHR but the Tories wants to leave it WITHOUT a referendum. Cameron is destroying want all PM's formed in the last 7 decades since Winston Churchill just to keep him on in Downing Street 10. More: Since I was in Glasgow few weeks ago most people there say: If the English leave the EU, we Scots leave the UK. Brussels did more for our Scotland then London did since 350 years. So why shall we leave the EU?
Asachana
The EU referendum isn't just an English vote. Are you sure you're Scottish?
And if you are, tho you don't sound it, why are you looking for other countries to babysit you?
+Asachana really really did EU give you the NHS did it give you benefits if you was out of work what do you see on your food packets English words Scotland has more of a say then anyone the Taxes are lower for a start and you get free education the rest of the UK pays for and you go on like a whiny little brat so I really don't know why you think you will be better off being in the European Union you're missing the point have everything we do not want more politicians we can't vote out
It's called humor, and parody. Plenty of leave campaigners behave exactly like this, ignoring everything that the EU has done for the UK.
+Semni Istiqlal like what
What have the Romans ever done for us.
Romulans surely?
Tbh most of this was British and imposed on EU by us + the Americans. You can’t honestly tell me the echr ended slavery because I’ll just laugh my lungs out.
The definition of a "fair trial" is from Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus Act, English Bill of Rights, Right of Petition, English common law, and other authorities of UK Constitutional Law.
Britain is still paying off the debt from when it bought every slave their freedom, and abolished slavery in the UK and commonwealth. What the fuck has the European Union got to do with that?
+Ace Sul People have very short memories friend.
ECHR is not about the EU - please don't confuse the issue.
so out of the convention and all these things will just be made legal and normal? pull the other one
Saw it about 10 times, and still enjoying every sentence! European thanks to the British culture & humour! :-)
This is actually really how it goes now...
From a Northern irishman i agree you do not want that can of worms lol.
Oops, lol
Oops. Sooree, we did open a can or two.
You're right, there's no discrimination in Europe.
Brilliant take on the brilliant Python sketch from Life of Brian--but I thought the punchline was going to be "wine."
This was a great reimagining of the Monty Python sketch. 😂
Now yes this doesn't necessarily have to be directly tied accurately in the way one expects to the remain/Brexit issue but I'd like to point out that the exact same issue applies to EU law in general.
Here's a fun experiment: try seeing how many of the EU laws in use today Britain voted in favour of.
I'll give you a hint, it's a LOT ;)
@James Chris you voted for an MEP, yes? Then you had your say.
@@Independenceday95 Are you serious? There is no such thing as voting for a legislative program in the EU. We merely elect a parliament that, mostly via the trialogue system without parliamentary debate, approve or reject laws that only the commission have the legal right to initiate. Not, by any stretch, can that be called 'having a say' on anything but optics.
@@moravianpost3345 you're also ignoring the fact that our own elected representatives (from the Government, so including the PM) attend the Council and scrutinise laws proposed by the Commission.
@@moravianpost3345 Well done! I thought I was the only one who knew that! The so called EU parliament is all smoke and mirrors. there to give the illusion of democracy, much like the British parliament.
Pretty sure most of those rights existed in Britain long before the ECHR was ever an idea.
Yes they did.
Watch it all the way through for details.
Tied us up in knots and forced the French to ignore it.
Before the EU, Britain was an unrelenting hellhole of barbarism and a set of ethics so primitive you could hardly call it morality. Captain Picard said so!
This is an answer to May saying she wanted to also leave the ECHR, which codified all those rights for the UK, and ALSO pushed them onto most of Europe. This was before the EU.
Watch it again. This isn't about the EU.
@@keepdancingmaria With Baldy its ALL about the EU.
@@keepdancingmaria except we wrote the ECHR and it's base mostly on stuff that ws already enshrined in uk law....
@@extermin8or3 Exactly. These people applauding this video in these comments are so utterly ignorant of British history they apparently don't realize that Britain was *the source* for most of the ideas of the ECHR.
@@keepdancingmaria It doesn't matter that it's not "about the EU". The issue is that *the premise of the video is a lie* , implying (nearly stating, actually) that the ECHR ended practices like torture in the EU. For god's sake, Britain practically *invented* human rights and the ECHR is little more than the European adaptation of what the UK had already been doing.
Incredible that was a foreshadow to today's government
The ECHR. None of what they said actually happens. Does privacy exist these days?
In 2016, leaving the ECHR was seen as a fervour dream. Now in 2024 it could quite well become a reality.
OMG this is on the level of "Yes, Minister" :-D Love it !
"Yes Minister" a comedy of home truths!!
why the fuck didnt we have the right to a fair trial befor the echr? what are we savages?
This is utter nonsense I'm afraid.
+Jack Mansfield- the first part of your response I agree with. However, what I regard as utter nonsence, are Theresa Mays scare tactics aiming to persuade us to support Conservative plans to withdraw from the ECHR.
+Kate Blair I'd take a bunch of euro-beurou-titions over the tories but do our standards have to be so low? Right now we have both, MIEN GOTTEN!
I am in favour of a broad international agreement on some fundamentals regarding how we treat each other but there are plenty of reasons why this agreement shouldn't extend any further than the real basics (torture, slavery and such).
The backslapping and virtue signaling over the ECHR would grate me less if our country and its allies had not constantly contravened it tenets before and long after its conception.
Ask a Chagossian how happy they are that we signed up to it.
+Jack Mansfield : Certainly she should ask and I would like to add, what has it done for some 10,000 orphaned refugee Syrian children who are missing in Europe, vanished say Europol and without doubt many being exploited.
Agree, far to much back slapping and virtue signaling, its done nothing, zero for the 10,000 missing or the Chagossian people.
We only had the right under common law prior to the ECHR, which meant it could be overturned by statute. Such as it was during the 70s in Ireland.
unfortunately a fair trial is not guaranteed under British law, neither are the other points they mentioned, that is kind of the point of the video. People are poorly informed into what the EU actually does.
That Belfast accent is the best 😂 what a palaver!
Who wrote the ECHR?
"One of the key writers of the European Convention on Human Rights was British Conservative MP and lawyer David Maxwell-Fyfe. Maxwell-Fyfe’s contribution to the Convention was so great that has been described as “the doctor who brought the child to birth“.
Another important British player was Lord Layton: a Liberal Party politician, editor and newspaper proprietor. Layton was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Others with important roles in getting the Convention into shape included Samuel Hoare (Home Office under-secretary), Ernest Bevin (UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) and Harold MacMillan (a British Conservative politician and statesman who went on to serve as Prime Minister)."
Answer = The Brits
Just the way it should be.
Well, six years later and still topical, unfortunately.
Tbh, acting like we couldn't have these things without the ECHR
+Lewis Davey I think the point is that we don't currently have these things set out in law without the ECHR; not that we couldn't.
+Lewis Davey Prior to the Human Rights Act 1998, the UK actually had one of the worst records for human rights in developed world, consistently ranked below countries like Russia and Turkey. You can google it if you don't believe me. It's one of the major reasons we passed the HRA; to avoid future public embarrassments in the European Court of Human Rights and deal with human rights issues internally. So I'm going to have to say that your statement isn't supported by fact.
+Andy Dodd Yet it's made to imply we couldn't, and wouldn't without the EU; utter nonsense.
+Uzi So we enacted the HRA, and could have enacted one including all the rights instead.
In other words the UK parliament solved the issue itself.
+Neil Wilson Yes, Parliament did solve the issue but I wouldn't agree that it did it independently. They used the framework of the ECHR. Starting from scratch would have taken far longer to firstly to create our Bill of Rights, and then secondly to 'get it right', as all new laws create unexpected problems which are solved over time.
But, my point was that in nearly 800 years after the Magna Carta we didn't manage to create these rights without help from the ECHR. And our previous violations record suggests that without the ECHR we never would have.
the original monty python sketch gets the point across much better I feel, in the acting of John Cleese.
+Tʜᴇ Gᴀᴍᴇ Cʜᴀɴɢᴇʀ both are comedy sketches will little to no reflection on the truth.
Who thought this would be so relevant now!
I'd forgotten this! It's wonderful!
A great take on a Monty Python classic. Yes we did have rights before and yes we did originally help write the ECHR, but these things continue to be protected by ECHR.
+Lauraine Compton Why's it being portrayed as a reason to stay in the EU? The EU and ECHR are not linked...
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Exactly.
Delighted to see that, when rushed, Sir Patrick slipped from the British to the American pronunciation of “privacy”.
Dear Liz, Jacob and Nigel, I hope you get a chance to watch this when you're not selling snake oil.
Time standing still: 5 past 9, six years ago and still 5 past 9 in 2022
Patrick Stewart swearing is like hearing Ghandi farting. It's an art form.
Didn't we already have all those rights?
I think they address it in the video by saying that it was Britain's idea in the first place...
And..I don't think the UK has an official bill of Rights like most constitutional countries. The UK does not have a written Constitution per se, but a sense of tradition and case law, am I right?
It’s been a long time since this video came out and politicians are still looking to get around it. What on earth do they think is going to happen if they get their way?
This NEVER GETS OLD!