Prisoner Votes

Well the motion was passed but we have not as yet bounded free of ECHR decisions. This will not happen until we have left the EU. This is because this country is bound by its Treaty obligations and as a country that invented the rule of law in the certain knowledge that it is of the utmost of importance in the fair governance of man (a fact which even the wording of the motion recognised: "acknowledges the treaty obligations of the UK"), Parliament has by its vote created a dilemma. Was encouraging MPs to vote for the motion a cynical move on Cameron's part to give a little happiness to the eurosceptics in the knowledge that the UK will in the end have to bow the head to the ECHR as Ms Synon in the Mail contends or was it a high risk strategy as Peter Oborne in the Daily Telegraph today suggests which logically should lead to discussions with the ECHR but which unless Cameron is able to negotiate an acceptable solution will end with the dissolution of the coalition. If the coalition ends will we then be given a referendum vote on whether we want to stay in or leave the EU? One can hope so.