UK prisoners should get vote, European court rules

OK the ECHR has ruled that UK prisoners should get vote, no matter what UK law says:

"Laws setting out who can and cannot take part in elections are to be rewritten after the European court of human rights today ruled in favour of giving British prisoners the right to vote.

Ruling in the case of a former prisoner against the United Kingdom, the Strasbourg court said the disenfranchisement of 48,000 convicts in British jails violated the European convention on human rights."

Now the European Court of Human Rights is not part of the EU, so they escape blaim this time, but this still shows an undemocratic and unaccoutable transnational body trampling over the will of the elected parliment of Britain. We should get rid of these people, the only good thing in this ruling is that it once again confirms that inhumane and degrading punishment is banned, which should have been obvious anyway, except that we are currently governed by New Labour.