And there you have the main reason the tories are going all guns blazing for the Human Rights Act. The simple yet powerful right to unionise which Article 11 gives to employees. Forget all their cited examples of apparent injustices in the criminal area thrown up by the HRA. Some of these have limited merit but many of them are either half truths or not really that unjust when you look at the merits of the case. At least not more so than what English law is capable of producing without any assistance from the HRA. Anyway the tory demographic is hardly affected by what they see as the limp-wristed, politically-correct treatment of criminals under the HRA. Other than that ideologically it puts their noses out of joint if people they see as different and/or weaker are not either controlled or stamped on. Unions however can be a real pain in the arse.* But this is all another discussion completely. *Disclaimer: the author is not pro-union merely pro-the right to unionise.