SIR – Mr John Hall suggests that I am guilty of bending the truth on the issue of the EU’s human rights (Letters, April 5). Interestingly, Mr Hall manages to badly misquote me by naming Article 42 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, when the correct article I mentioned was 52.
Mr Hall, though, does not disagree with the ‘terms and conditions’ of the EU’s human rights, in that they may limit human rights if in their ‘general interest’. He claims it is ‘perfectly reasonable’ to set aside some individual rights in the interest of the greater EU. This is where we fundamentally disagree.
For me there can be no sacrificing of individual rights to serve the interest of what is effectively an undemocratic government. Surely the purpose of human rights is that they are just that – ‘rights’, not something that can be revoked on the whim of the EU?
Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury
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