I BELIEVE it was Voltaire who said: “Common sense is not so common.”

This is best illustrated by the European and British justice system, where the courts have high-jacked the Human Rights Act, in particular Article 8 – the right to a family life.

These unelected legal experts have taken this legislation and turned it into something it was not intended to be used for.

We are right to renegotiate our position in Europe over many things; taking back sovereignty is just one of them, to give us back our right make and dispense justice as we see it.

I’m not against the general principles of human rights, but the pressure groups who support this act, and defend those using this article to stay in the United Kingdom, rarely talk about the human rights and justice for those who have been injured or killed or those left behind.

I voted in the last European referendum for a Common Market, not a union.

Keith Isaac, Byron Drive, Rawcliffe, York.