How does the European Convention on Human Rights stop us deporting illegal immigrants?
(www.youtube.com)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOD1jF4TBKsOnly 4'4" so don't be put off by Simon Webb being a leftist. He crisply makes the point that the European Convention on Human Rights is OK, it is just the judicial interpretation that is at fault.
I draw a different lesson from the facts presented. Laws written as vague principles hand over power to judges. Come back thirty years later and the judiciary is staffed by different people. Previously pedants, happy to follow strict rules. Now, power hungry activists, eager to use the power unwisely delegated to the courts. The European Convention on Human Rights has been a disaster because it has changed the job of a judge, and changed who wants to do it.