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[Furunculus]

As for me, the one thing I hate more than an international court protecting my rights against my government, it is no protection against my government.

Here's an idea: let the UK government uphold the rights of Britons, then it does not face international meddling.

If the government infringes upon your rights, you have one instance of appeal. At the ECHR. Me I'd let my government strip me of this right over my dead body. Just why others would not only not do that, but actively urge their government to strip them of their right of appeal is beyond me. Churchill must turning in his grave, what with the current UK parliament voting to strip Britons of the right of appeal he ensured for them. To think Churchill and his generation fought so hard for it.

Or, alternatively, we can sort it out ourselves through the complex and sophisticated political institutions that we have evolved over nearly 1500 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witenagemot
Witenagemot > Curia Regis > Parliament of England > Parliament of GB > Parliament of the UK of GB and Ireland
c. 627-1066 > 1066-c. 1215 > c. 1215-1707 > 1707-1800 > 1801-1927

using a system of common law that has evolved to meet the expectations of the people over nearly 1000 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#History
"The doctrine of precedent developed under the inquisitorial system in England during the 12th and 13th centuries,[28] as the collective judicial decisions that were based in tradition, custom and precedent. "