A human-rights group can take a UK law to the European Court of Human Rights and have judges from San Marino overturn what Parliament passed. The speaker questions whether Britain's elected government actually runs the country or if external courts do.
Who do you think really runs the state? We can have a situation in this country where a government wins a whopping great big landslide, and they've won that based on manifesto, a set of things that you say, I'm going to do this when I win the landslide. People vote for that, they get into power, they pass that law through Parliament, it goes through the House of Lords, it might be challenged by some, let's say, some human rights groups or something, it goes through all of our court system, it's found in this country to be completely legal, and we go ahead and do it. And then one group decides to take us to the ECHR abroad, where judges from San Marino might decide that actually That's not okay, and we can't do it.
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