So does the Standards Board breach my human rights

My previous post about the Human Rights Act got me thinking.

The Standards Board for England steadfastly refuse to offer any protection to Councillors who are subjected to malicious complaints, be they streams of meaningless claims from a single individual or politically motivated complaints which amount to nothing but which generate publicity, merely by the fact that they have been made.

It strikes me as absolute common sense that any legislation which is there to investigate complaints about the conduct of Councillors should have a mechanism to deal with complaints of malicious and mischievous intent. If what the Lord Chancellor says is true, then surely the Standards Board is contravening the human rights of Councillors?

Human Rights Nonsense Claim is Nonsense

Our dearly beloved Lord Chancellor is apparently claiming that much of the interpretation of the Human Rights Law is nonsense and that rulings should be "Common Sense". I have heard the same sort of comment made about Health and Safety Legislation.

If it was all about common sense, we should not have needed to be directed and dictated to by Europe on the matter and a huge bureaucratic law created. The conservatives are right to say it should be scrapped, maybe the Lord Chancellor should be scrapped too.