UK Would Have to Leave EU to Reverse ECHR's Ruling on Prisoner's Votes

Over the last few days the question of prisoners being allowed to vote has been in the news.  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) have ruled that the ban on allowing prisoners to vote in elections is against the law because of the prisoner’s Human Rights! Therefore we must reverse our laws, which date back a 140 years, in respect of prisoners forfeiting their rights to vote once they go to prison. A great many people are saying that the ECHR are actually the same as the European Union, whilst others are pointing out that in fact the ECHR and the EU are two separate bodies, which in fact they are.  However, you can’t have one without the other if you are a country within the EU.  As much as David Cameron gives lip service about ignoring the ECHR’s decision to overrule the UK’s laws which stop prisoners from voting, he knows very well that to defy the ECHR is to defy the European Union.  

The EU requires that all members be signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights and to accept the rulings and jurisdictions of the ECHR that enforces it, therefore the ECHR overrules the sovereignties of the EU member countries. The only way to govern ourselves and to relinquish the power held over us by the ECHR is to leave the EU and pull out of the convention and the jurisdiction of the European Court.

So in spite of Mr Camerson throwing his hands up in shock at being told to give prisoners the vote, it would seem that he knew all along that he cannot defy the rulings of the ECHR, because the UK would have to leave the EU to do so.  So at the end of the day we are totally under the ECHR’s jurisdiction and unable to enforce our own rulings, should the ECHR decide to reverse them.