David Norris (Independent)

We are used to praising ourselves with regard to our human rights records. People sometimes say I got my justice in the gay rights issue but I did not get it in this country. I did not get it through the European Union either but through the European Court of Human Rights. At the end of the 19th century, the great French novelist Émile Zola rebuked a government by saying "J'accuse", I accuse. I accuse this Government of having the worst record on human rights of any Government I remember.