Martine Croxall strikes again!
Last weekend, appearing surprisingly exercised about the issue during an edition of The Papers, the BBC News Channel presenter gave us her views on human rights (in relation to an Abu Hamza-related story in the Telegraph) and on why we in the UK need the the European Court of Justice:
It comes down to that idea that you can pick and choose who you allow to have human rights. And I don't think the law allows that.
Well, that's why we have it {the ECJ}, isn't it? To tell us what we should be doing in this country, to keep...checks and balances so that everyone has the laws applied to them.
They weren't devil's advocate-style questions either. They were statements.
Last night, during a The Papers discussion of a piece in the Daily Mail (8:29 in), she became animated again and said slowly (and with some feeling):
Now people may not always like this but...even criminals have human rights!
It does make you wonder whether there's something behind this.
