"Lord Hoffman is suggesting that we repatriate the powers under the Human Rights Act. We in UKIP are of course in favour of this, just as are in favour of taking back those powers given away to the EU and other transnational organisations." said Nigel Farage, UKIP leader.
"Here the conflict is that we have the Common Law. Of the 45 judges on the European Court of Human Rights only two have any experience of our system. The other 43 have all been trained in the Continental, or Roman, legal system. So they have no idea how to deal with us and our system.
"Of course we should protect human rights, but we should do so our way, in our system. We did invent the very concept of such human rights after all.
"Lord Hoffman is makiing an extremely sensible argument, one the government would do well to listen to."
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