The European Court of Human Rights is hugely important. From the right to an education to the right to vote, it covers and protects all aspects of our lives. The idea of losing it cause of some lies about “boat people” is terrifying and the effect on our lives untold.
This sort of complacent attitude allows things like this to slip through though. Do be careful with that mindset.
It isn’t likely to happen for a number of reasons but a big one is that the Good Friday Agreement requires that the ECHR be enforceable in Northern Ireland. What this means is that if you want to actually leave the ECHR you would either have to break or renegotiate the GFA, neither of which is likely to happen (or at least likely to happen without adverse consequence - Ireland, the rest of the EU and the USA have all said as much).
And because of all this, it would likely need to go to a referendum.
Who is going to vote to remove their own human rights?
People would probably do it to remove other people’s human rights…
Except that’s not how it works.
I know that, but that seems to be how a lot of right wing people think about these things. They want to take rights from the out group and think it will never happen to them because they are in the in group