Our future in the EU will be in danger if there is a new tory gov't

It's got to the point where I don't see that as a bad thing. It was a great idea, a free trade zone, but it's turned into a bureaucratic mess that wastes money on making pointless laws. Why every country has to have the same laws is beyond me.

It also gives citizens a basic level of rights.

That's my point, it's gone way beyond basic. It's now so complex that on EU human rights law contradicts another. How many time have you read a silly story in a paper with someone claiming it's an abuse of their human rights.

I think that there are certain rights where the EU is better than here, The Digital Britian Bill that the government are forcing on us. The law will be unlawful under EU law.

As for Burkas I think that they should be banned as well, because they are a security risk. You should be forced to take one off when in a shop of office, even using a ATM because it hides its users identity.

That's my point, it's gone way beyond basic. It's now so complex that on EU human rights law contradicts another. How many time have you read a silly story in a paper with someone claiming it's an abuse of their human rights.

Even assuming the UK could leave the EU, we'd never in a million years get away with withdrawing from the ECHR - it'd be met with international condemnation.

It would not stop the Tories or UKIP trying.

Tbh, I quite like the fact we'd have the balls to do it at all in that situation

And we'd hardly be taking any lectures from the French on it, or any of the smaller countries (we'd just ignore them like we usually do).

A common misconception is that the European Convention on Human Rights and its institutions have been thrust upon an unwilling UK as part of the wider European project.
But the reality is that the UK (which passed the first ever legislation known as a Bill of Rights in 1689) was one of the architects of the human rights agenda that grew out of the devastation of Second World War.