wulbert
pfm Member
Like the previous poster, you take the Human Rights act 1998 at face value, rather than looking at how it's performed in practice. .
The fact that good laws are not enacted is no argument for their removal. That's a twisted, self-defeating and rather dangerous rationale. The avoidance of action on existing laws is pretty much standard Tory strategy.
For example, we have existing legislation and "watchdogs" for environmental protection, but the agencies charged with their enactment are deliberately rendered toothless and have board members who are the same self-interested people whose industry is committing the harms.
If a scandal erupts, new laws and watchdogs can be created to make sure that the "lessons learned" from the exposed corruption can be enforced. We can all "move on" and then the new laws and watchdog can be starved of resources and forgotten about. Rinse and repeat and down the plug-hole we go.