Tory's plan to scrap Human Rights Act and introduce Snoopers' Charter

As a life long Conservative member and supporter it pained me to see that immediately after winning the Election, the Tory’s priority was to abolish the Human Rights Act. Theresa May as the Home Secretary appears to want to push through a Snoopers' Charter that risks turning the UK into a police state. I doubt if many voters told their Tory candidates that the Human Rights Act was high on their list of priorities or that they wanted a snoopers’ charter to be introduced as a matter of urgency.

This legislative priority gives the impression that some of the Tories are more concerned with the agendas of their Party's paymasters than with the concerns and aspirations of their voters.

Instead of working with speed and vigour to make lives better for the people in the country, such as ensuring more houses are built, and improving the infrastructure in the regions, the currently touted legislative priorities: to abolish Human Rights Act; and to introduce the Snoopers’ Charter are like a slap on the face for those who voted Tory in the general election. These votes, it now seems are only used to give them the legitimacy to do what they want to do for themselves and not for us.

Furthermore, if Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales can keep the Human Rights Act and stay within the European Human Rights Convention, why can't English voters? It seems that in the next election, far fewer English people will vote for a Conservative Party intent on making them second class humans.

Olivia Boland (pictured)
Chairman of Suffolk Chinese Family Welfare Association