"The UK seems to be the only EC member-state that actually obeys the rulings of that bunch of numpties"

Mind the Court was a creation of the Council of Europe. Set up after being initially instigated by Churchill after the end of the war. We were founder members of the Council long before we were members of the EU and it is not one and the same thing. Not all memebers of the Council are EU members also. The EU often incorrectly gets the flak for the rulings of the court.