Votes for Prisoners

It seems no one complains that the civil rights of convicts have been transgressed if their liberty is removed as part of their punishment - at least not yet. Why, if as part of that punishment their right to vote is withdrawn should anyone complain? Only nutters it seems, having listened to the frankly barmy argument used by someone representing some Human Rights organisation on Radio 4 at lunchtime today. This idiot's argument was that the withdrawal of voting rights was quite arbitrary and as such must be an infringement of a convict's human rights. Ignoring the question whether the right to vote is a human right it is quite clear that the withdrawal of the right to vote is not arbitrary as it is the existing law of the land.  No one would be having this discussion if that busybody, charlatan of the first order and his henchmen had not passed the Human Rights Act 1998. Sadly the Human Rights Act 1998 will not be revoked until the Tories rule by themselves and even then perhaps not. Cameron is not exactly proving to be a champion of this country in the way he represented he would be.