Opinion by Mathew Carr
April 4, 2024 — Rishi Rishi Dishi Rishi.
Maaaaate you have no mandate. Are you a dictator? (see video below, Sun, Telegraph)
So-called leaders keep behaving as if there is no political accountability.
Britain should be chuffed if the European Court of Human Rights wants to look over its plan to send migrants to Rwanda or send whistleblowing journalist Julian Assange to brutal, militaristic America.
The point about the EU and indeed the UN isn’t to have a one-world government but it IS to prevent bad temporary leaders from trampling on people’s basic human rights. Is that you, Rishi? Is it?
I agree nation states should hold sovereignty.
Dishi …if you don’t like ECHR decisions on Rwanda or Assange, then please put those questions fairly to the British people in a referendum held alongside the upcoming national election.
The people should decide. Not you.
Stop overreaching your leadership position…which is limited for this very reason.
Even better, all important legal cases — criminal AND civil — should be put to a jury of peers. Add some experts in there too, perhaps — to make sure the jury is well informed? And also make sure judges don’t try to improperly influence the juries.
One of the benefits of AI is that people may have more time for jury duty …and less time for out-of-control, autocratic temporary leaders who lack any mandate whatsoever.
The people are in charge in a democracy. Not you. You are accountable to them.
(Tweaks headline, adds CarrZee comments, Assange link)