"The international Left-wing elites are well on their way to crushing democracy"

Telegraph: 10th April 2024: Allister Heath (Editor of The Sunday Telegraph) gives his brilliant verdict on the ECHR ruling on climate change

"Democracy is dying, and we are running out of time to save it. The theft of power and influence from ordinary citizens, and its transfer to unelected, unaccountable lawyers and technocrats is accelerating...

In an incendiary judicial coup this week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) greatly expanded its own remit while downgrading democracy another notch...its Grand Chamber ruled that countries that don’t reduce carbon emissions fast enough are violating their citizens’ right to private and family life....

The problem is obvious: if a rise in temperature violates our right to a private and family life, what doesn’t? Where will the ECHR power grab end?...

The game here is clear. By making everything about “human rights” that cannot be questioned, then the democratic sphere, where we can debate and disagree and vote for different approaches, is drastically curtailed, and the influence of Left-wing lawyers massively increased...

One line in the judgment reveals the deeply authoritarian impulse underlying the decision: in a classic case of Orwellian doublespeak, it reverses the meaning of “democracy” to justify disregarding what the public actually wants...

If you trust the voters, you can get Brexit – horror of horrors – or the Swiss rejecting net zero, which is clearly intolerable. Democracy is the political equivalent of pocket money: it should only hold sway over unimportant matters. The real decisions should be taken by objective judges...

...Who guards the guardians? Who runs Britain? It’s time to take back control from these anti-democratic, maniacal elitists."

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