From: William Loneskie, Justice Park, Oxton, Lauder, Berwickshire.
The European Court of Human Rights has often been criticised for interfering with the governance of its 46 member countries. It has, for example, prevented the UK government from taking decisive action against illegal immigration. Its latest ruling is its most perverse yet. Sarah Dines MP has described this ruling as 'yet another attempted ideological power grab on the part of a self-serving elite out of touch with reality'.
It has ruled that all member states have a duty to protect people from climate change.
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