Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

It's the European Convention "on" European Rights.

We could have all this stuff while still not having to accept all terms of the echr

This still works in 2025

I hope Reform UK watches this, even if their brains can't compute it.

They're still trying to abolish it in the UK in 2025.

So depressing

I thought this was from 2025 given how incredibly accurate it is.

Lemme get this straight. It was British legal experts who helped make the ECHR and decades later Britain wanted to get rid of it?

Reminds me of Trump's deal with Canada and Mexico on his first term, but in his second term he said that deal was bad.

ECHR isn't ECtHR, The Court seems corrupt

If only the BBC had the balls to play this on the 6oclock news

So ironic this was before Brexit.

Except that this is all just 'words on paper' that do NOT translate into reality! (Apart from the fact that this a parody of a Monty Python sketch). The ECHR is just yet another smoke-and-mirrors operation designed to make the general collective believe that we exist in functioning democracies. We do Not! The ECHR - whilst being a noble document - is unenforceable whilst our master-pretender-politicals hold the autocratic reins.

why does patrick stewart remind me of my grandad haha

In order to fully enjoy this skit, one must be completely ignorant of history. Pretty much everything listed in here were rights that the British acquired hundreds of years before the ECHR was drafted. Sometimes something looks clever, but in fact is built on false ideas. And that is what we have here.

I imagine this very scenario playing out in a room with Robert Jenrick, only without the realisation at the end. He's a bit dim is our Rob.

I've had this video bookmarked for years...

Most of these rights have been included in the Magna Carte, and improved- look at the flip side of the ECHR, and how is it is being used by third parties to use ECHR to destroy everything it should represent- effectively democracy being abused to destroy democracy.

... so the price was "THE WAR" itself ... .
.... often people forget what their parents and grandparents use to fight for and paid the PRICE for .. they are the only ones to understand and comprehend it's Value ...
... today we are going back to fight again for the same .. we didn't evolve in the most valuable aspects of our life, which makes a difference between animals and 'US', the so called "we" ..

Patrick Stewart as our pm please ❤❤❤❤

Nothing more needs to be said on this subject!

Who had all those anyway, before we joined the ECHR!

Wow, I didn't know that UK citizens didn't have right to a fair trial prior to 1953, I wish smug people could read history books too.

Jacob and his mates want rid to start sending kids up chimneys again for £2 an hour.

Great Stuff...

Who's watching this in 2024?

Its really depressing that this amazing skit was uploaded 8 years ago

Yet here we are in 2024 and we still have bigoted lunatics standing to lead the Tory party on a platform of leaving the ECHR

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everything thing is a product of its time and how it is interpreted, unless lawyers drew up the fine print it open! UK hasnt accepted it new place in the scheme of things, boris johnson killed the queen!

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Hilarious, but borrowed from Monty Python's "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

European Court of Illegal Migrant Rights 😂

But apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

👏Still needs saying, and playing.

Yes, the ECHR invented freedom from slavery and the right to a fair trial —> the UK was a lawless state prior to all of this.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard on deck!

Funny how this has come back again. Atleast Rwanda scam is now over.

Human rights only get taken away when a regime wants to imprison its own people but is unable to do so in a fair trial. So it takes away the fair trial.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

There was no right to fair trial before the ECHR?

That is brilliant. Should be compulsory viewing in every secondary school.

The United Kingdom had no freedom from slavery before the ECHR?

Someone has been watching Monty Python

And now I must rewatch Blunt Talk

Very interesting

The problem is the brexit didn't understand the difference between EU and ECHR and they are not linked. And was part of the need to leave this too

When you realise your privately educated tory politicians cheated in all their exams.

Even more relevant in 2024 than back then

That's awesome, 😂

Brilliant. Perhaps the Tory party needs to watch this.