Gavin Lingiah thinks the Labour Party cut and paste of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, it is a "major" achievement, it isn't

Dear All

I am sure you like me like a laugh.

Over at Yapping Yousuf, he stuck up this gem of wisdom from “brilliant” Gavin Lingiah.

Just to impress us all, Yousuf sticks Liniah qualifications;

BSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology, a PHD in Molecular Biology and an LLM degree in innovation, technology and law focusing on intellectual property and IT law and policy to set the stage.

Then Yousuf states Gavin is adding some much-needed intellectual weight to his blog today.

Just in case we didn’t understand the significance of the qualifications.

While it is true that Yousuf is acting like a 'kiss ass' for the Labour Party at the moment, this isn’t weight but chit chat.

Someone could have told you this claptrap down the pub while you were eating a packet of pork scratchings and downing a pint.

Statements of the bleeding obvious don’t equal intellectual weight in my opinion.

And in true intellectual fashion he starts the ball rolling by quoting Cicero except he can’t remember where to put the quotation mark.

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. Cicero".

Try;

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value”. Cicero.

Now, it gets better as he starts off his voyage of discovery.

“I believe that the Human Rights Act is a major achievement of the Labour Party in government and is as significant as devolution”.

It is a cut and paste of European Convention on Human Rights.

So, the ability to copy others work is a major achievement of the Labour Party?

Then there follows an attack on the Tories who want the Human Rights Act 1998 replaced with a UK Bill of Rights.

Regardless of how the Tories try to tinker with the act or even scrap it, they are still locked into the European Convention on Human Rights so recourse still exists.

The problem with Human Rights Act 1998 is not the act itself but people interrupt the act.

The act is like driving a car, if you stick a person behind the wheel who isn’t competent, then it becomes a danger to others.

Lingiah never mentions this, the pertinent point which his argument should be based on in defence of the Human Rights Act 1998.

“Brilliant” Gavin Lingiah is a member of East Dunbartonshire Labour Party and has the ability to cut and paste and state the obvious.

Other than that, today the world’s knowledge hasn’t been extended.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University