>> because as i don't want parliament to sentence people to death by bill of attainder, as it used to be able to do, but that won't happen because the british people wouldn't vote for that to happen, whereas the human rights that we're getting from the convention, and we saw this very strongly with the swiss judgement recently, is intervening in things that are best decided by local democracies . democracies. >> well, the european convention is political. if you look at the articles and human rights act itself, the right to freedom of assembly , for example, that's assembly, for example, that's political. the right to a free election, that's political. so you can't separate out rights, human rights from political rights because there intrinsically linked. >> okay. but if you take a right to a free election, there are some people who would argue that first past the post does not give you a proper election system. now, it seems to me unquestionably that should be decided by parliament, not by the european court. decided by parliament, not by the european court . we used to the european