This says it all!

The principal purpose of the European Convention on Human Rights was to provide "a beacon to the peoples behind the Iron Curtain, and a passport for their return to the midst of the free countries." ("The Daily Telegraph", 6 October 2014, page 23) There is nothing in the Convention about immigration control, never mind providing a passport to citizens of non-member countries to enable them to live and work in member states. But that is just what it did on 28 May 1985 when the European Court of Human Rights determined in favour of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK. In other words, words are (mis)interpreted in a legal context in a way that the compilers had no intention that they would be!

My epetition "Close Immigration Loophole", which closed on 4 September, attained a total of 246 signatures.