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Come on Freddy Frog, you’re surely not trotting out that old chestnut. How can reducing the disparity between voter numbers across constituencies be described as gerrymandering? As for the voter rolls, the current proposals date back to 2002 when the then Labour government introduced them in Northern Ireland, partly to combat electoral fraud. The Electoral Commission has been pushing for the new system to be rolled out UK wide ever since. This is not some kind of Tory plot.
Given your willingness to swallow the propaganda about electoral rolls and constituency boundaries, I felt obliged to check your other facts relating to the ECHR. You are correct about all the examples you give but a review of immigration and other decisions where the ECHR is relied on does, from the point of view of the person in the street show some strange thinking. Ordinary people do find it hard to understand why e.g. a violent criminal from Somalia can't be sent home, or a man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and her new partner is given a new name and the right to anonymity. Ordinary people may be wrong in their thinking but so might be those of us who think we are better informed.