Rights Brought Home- Really Tony?

In October 1997, Tony Blair signed to preface to a White Paper " Rights Brought Home".
It explained the Human Rights Bill which, following a manifesto commitment, was introduced into Parliament shortly afterwards.
Below Tony's portrait was this:

"This White Paper explains the proposals contained in the Human Rights Bill which we are introducing into Parliament. The Bill marks a major step forward in the achievement of our programme of reform. It will give people in the United Kingdom opportunities to enforce their rights under the European Convention in British courts rather than having to incur the cost and delay of taking a case to the European Human Rights Commission and Court in Strasbourg. It will enhance the awareness of human rights in our society. And it stands alongside our decision to put the promotion of human rights at the forefront of our foreign policy.

I warmly commend these proposals to Parliament and to the people of this country.

TONY BLAIR

Like his failure to make the European case, to support HIS  Human Rights Act in the face of the Murdoch press, now see just what a weak, spineless fibber he is.

Comments

[BrianB]

Many thanks. This post and its two immediate predecessors are a splendid quarry of information required to correct the spectacular distortions of the prime minister, home secretary and the more shameless tabloids. I have added an update of 16 May accordingly to my own blog post of the 13th at http://tinyurl.com/mv935.

Brian
http://www.barder.com/ephems/

[BrianB]

Apologies for the tinyurl link not working in my comment above -- it's purely because the full stop after it has got incorporated in the URL. It should be

http://tinyurl.com/mv935 (no dots!).

Brian