A European Union ruling on the right to vote will soon overturn traditional British law which denies killers, rapists, thieves and paedophiles the right to vote.

The European Court of Human Rights is forcing the UK to change its 140-year-old law which bans inmates from voting. Under the new law, which is currently “under consultation,” prisoners could be able to have postal votes from their prison cells.

In 2007, prisoners sentenced to less than four years included 154 convicted of manslaughter, 10,060 convicted of wounding, 78 rapists and 1,425 other sex offenders.

The Ministry of Justice has written a consultation paper which covers the options. The proposal is “open-ended”, which means no type of prisoner has yet been ruled out.

The British National Party’s spokesman on policing matters, former Metropolitan police inspector Mr Michael Barnbrook, has expressed his outrage at the move.

“How many more sensible laws and traditions does the EU want to destroy?” Mr Barnbrook said.

“There is a very good reason why people who have been convicted of those horrendous crimes are not allowed to vote – through their deeds they have abrogated their rights in society.

“The thought of a paedophile being able to vote for the public representatives of a family whose life they have destroyed, is too horrendous to even contemplate,” he said.

“The time has come to get rid of the EU monstrosity before it destroys everything that is British and undermines all our moral codes and norms.

“On June 4, every British person, no matter where they live, will be able to vote for the BNP in the European elections. Everyone who is outraged by this latest EU ruling must get out and vote for the BNP, which is this nation’s last hope for sanity and justice.”