Me too.
Personally I think the fact the Reform party is its biggest supporter gives you the ‘dog whistle’ reason. I think they’d say it will stop migrants coming to the UK ( in the same way that leaving the EU meant no one could tell the brits what a banana was)
and there hasn’t been one person coming on here to say how their life would be so much better if it was abolished.
Technically, it’s an international treaty that the UK doesn’t need to adhere to. We are a sovereign state and could go against it at any time. However, it’s bad for the UK’s reputation and tyrants like Putin could point to us and see that we don’t follow international law so why should he?
however, I’m not sure how leaving it entirely solves that problem.
to play devil’s advocate- it is seen as a living instrument, so can be updated and changed. It decides on individual cases and members are legally bound to uphold its rulings.
I think the problem for some is that it gives human rights to terrorists. Unfortunately, it’s a tricky issue. The bottom line is they are still people. It means you have issues like the east London schoolgirl who wanted to come back to UK- even though she’d been stripped of her citizenship.
I think she may have contested that under a right to family life.
but frankly, as undesirable as she is, she was a British citizen who was born and grew up here. The only reason they could ban her coming back was because she held a Bangladeshi passport.