Referring to a judgment delivered as long ago as October 2005<\/a>, the deputies noted that the court\u2019s grand chamber had found that the \u201cgeneral, automatic and indiscriminate restriction on the right of convicted prisoners in custody to vote fell outside any acceptable margin of appreciation and was incompatible with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the convention\u201d.<\/p>\n The deputies recalled a motion adopted last December<\/a> in which the Committee of Ministers had \u201cexpressed serious concern that the substantial delay in implementing the judgment has given rise to a significant risk that the next United Kingdom general election\u2026 will be performed in a way that fails to comply with the Convention\u201d. The ministers had urged the United Kingdom to \u201crapidly adopt measures to implement the judgment\u201d.<\/p>\n Despite that, they noted today, the \u201cautomatic and indiscriminate restriction remains in force\u201d.<\/p>\n The deputies\u00a0<\/p>\n Ultimately, though, there is little more they can do. The forthcoming election will not be invalid or illegal. But it doesn\u2019t exactly make you be proud of a country that not only denies its citizens their human rights but chooses not to do anything about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n So much for the government\u2019s promise that it always implements the court\u2019s rulings.<\/p>\n <\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Britain was “strongly urged” today to allow prisoners to vote at the general election. Officials at the Council of Europe “reiterated their serious concern” that the government’s failure to implement a judgment by the European Court of Human Rights would lead to large numbers of claims by disenfranchised prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Defeat begets defeat for Britain\u2019s cloth-eared Left<\/a>
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Britain must reinvent itself<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"