We need a campaign to sing the praises of the ECHR and human rights in general. We needed one ten years ago but we really need it now.
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Perhaps we should just offer everyone the individual right to be treated as if they are in the ECHR or not for the next ten years. If greater than 50% of people are prepared to go the next ten years without those rigths at the end of the 10 years we leave the ECHR.
aug 23, 2025, 8:04 am • 1 0 • view
And we allow people to flip back once after experiencing it.
aug 23, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
If have a similar game of chicken to play with the small boats... just give Reform control of the asylum system now so everyone can see what a sh** job they do.
aug 23, 2025, 8:06 am • 0 0 • view
Challenge opponents of the ECHR on which articles that deem inappropriate www.coe.int/en/web/compa...
aug 23, 2025, 10:10 am • 3 0 • view
Honestly, pointing at a graph or reality makes no difference to these people. They want out of the echr because they got the asylum system they voted for. There is no thought past "don't like foreign"
aug 24, 2025, 6:51 am • 0 0 • view
Those who have already made up their might to hate it are mostly not going to change their minds; the goal must be to galvanize and harden the majority who support it, hence normalizing support with a view to swaying a proportion of undecideds.
aug 24, 2025, 7:09 am • 0 0 • view
How?
aug 24, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
I’m not sure - maybe for a start find 6 really clear positive things the ECHR has done which help ‘normal people’ and blast them everywhere.
aug 24, 2025, 7:23 am • 0 0 • view
The people who want to leave do not belive they will be negativity impacted. It's very brexity
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 am • 1 0 • view
I'm just not sure that works. These are people that threw away the much more tangible benefits, to them at least, of being in the EU.
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 am • 1 0 • view
It's feels not facts and they feel hateful.
aug 24, 2025, 7:29 am • 0 0 • view
I bet you if you do that the vast majority of the people who would say they want to leave the ECHR would not be able to pick one, but would still say they would want to leave the ECHR. It's not a decision they make with their heads but with their emotions.
aug 23, 2025, 10:22 am • 3 0 • view
Agreed but most people instinctively support it (see polling was about 56% support I think) but they need to be galvanized.
aug 23, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s why I think a positive support. Picking holes in the arguments of those who want it scrapped will probably fail.
aug 23, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 0 • view
I largely feel, like Brexit, the best thing to do is not engage with the argument because it's like arguing with flat earthers (if only Cameron had done that with Brexit).
aug 23, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmmm. I agree perhaps not to argue, but they are already arguing and have all the media bandwidth they need, and are leading the polls, so I think something proactive needs to be done.
aug 23, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, point out they are Putin appeasers, that their Brexit has failed, that they are Trump's friends and asset strippers. In short, stop being nice.
aug 23, 2025, 3:24 pm • 3 2 • view
Yes but it’s not “people”it’s the like of Farage and that goon Stringer. Ignorance is the key for them
aug 23, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
They'll just pivot to saying it's about removing asylum seekers and the UK has good protections for those other things (a trick they pulled in Brexit) and it will just reinforce peoples emotional reason for leaving.
aug 23, 2025, 11:00 am • 0 0 • view
The importance of human rights should be clear to anyone who looks at a country where they don’t have them, e.g. Putin’s Russia.
aug 23, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
But it is not! That’s the problem. Too many people still think that people like them have no need of them - they are for foreigners, activists and trouble makers.
aug 23, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Not with the media we’ve got, no chance. Failed to report Brexit accurately, or Covid, or Tory destruction, now they give staggering air time to both Reform & the minor issue of immigration. Truth can’t compete with our media.
aug 23, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 1 • view
People also need to learn history and why it’s there in the first place
aug 23, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait till you find what the Blue Labour group have got planned
aug 23, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The people who are duped into supporting leaving the EHCR do not understand that those critical safeguards will be removed from THEM as well as forriners.
aug 23, 2025, 10:36 pm • 2 0 • view