letter to the editor from Richard Corbett MEP |
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7 October 2005 |
no related press release
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Daily Express |
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Sir, It is inconceivable that the expert political journalists who work for the Express should make such an elementary error as to confuse the European Court of Human Rights with the EU. I have no doubt that your writers – if not your readers – are aware that the Court is an entirely separate institution which has nothing to do with Britain's EU membership. So how are we to explain the brazenly inaccurate headline on page 2 of today's Express: 'EU gives convicts in British jails right to vote' (7 October)? Every other news source in the UK managed to recognise that it was the Strasbourg court, not the EU, that made the ruling in question. So I must conclude that this was a simple slip of the Express pen which will soon be corrected. I am sure it could not be, for example, an attempt to spread further inventions about the insidious bureaucrats of Brussels interfering in our daily lives. Such inventions would surely not be in keeping with the standard of political journalism for which the Express is rightly renowned. Richard Corbett |
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