Rejected petition Britain should pull out of the Human Rights Convention

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In the light of the July riots, and the questions raised about the police's perceived reluctance to initially take on the thugs because of previous criticism from so-called civil liberties groups, is it not time that Parliament considered pulling Britain out of the Human Rights Convention?

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Date submitted 12 August 2011
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