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Amend Human Rights Act and review all laws

Submitted by Neville Boyd on Thursday 28th November 2024

Published on Tuesday 4th March 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 4th September 2025

Signatures: 82

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Actions ~ Breach ~ Crime ~ democracy ~ FEAR ~ Freedom ~ Freedom of Speech ~ freespeech ~ Healthy ~ Human Rights ~ Human Rights Act ~ Law ~ Nature ~ Our Rights ~ Police ~ Population ~ Reviewed ~ rights act ~ Tackling ~ UK population

Petition Action

Amend Human Rights Act and review all laws

Petition Details

We would like the Human Rights Act 1998 to be amended to cover “freedom of speech and thought” rather than “freedom of expression”. We would also like all laws to be reviewed from a human rights perspective, and any laws that are assessed to breach these rights to be repealed.

Additional Information

We think laws used to be based on actions but are now too much based on feelings and words, which we believe is eroding our rights. We believe laws based on feelings are a very bad idea, because of their subjective nature, and that such laws can be weaponised.
We consider that amongst the UK population this has generated great fear of saying or doing the wrong thing, and that, furthermore, our Police are wasting time policing feelings and words as opposed to tackling other crime. Free speech is necessary for a healthy democracy.


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