I’m one of the 92%.
Prime Minister Rishi Suank has been urged by senior Tories to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and allow the UK’s Rwanda migration policy to be passed.
Conservative MP Danny Kruger has said that if the Government fails to renegotiate its relationship with Strasbourg, Britain should “unilaterally withdraw” from the international convention.
The Rwanda arrangement is domestic policy and a matter of UK law. Offshoring illegal immigrants does not affect their human rights. No one is torturing or murdering them, merely refusing entry to our country and that is not a human rights breach, because no one has the automatic right of entry into someone else’s country. Our decision to manage the swarms of illegals crossing the Channel in this manner has fuck all to do with a foreign court. So, yes, we should leave and tell them to stick it.
Never gonna happen
Not with this bunch of tossers in charge.
Nor the next lot
And especially not the next lot….
The problem with international judicial bodies such as the ECHR is that they always expand their jurisdictions to cover matters that the states establishing the bodies did not intend to be covered at the time of establishment. I see this as an inevitable consequence of the belief all humans have that they know best. In my view the result is pernicious because every time the judicial body indulges in this mission creep it takes the matter decided out of the democratic decision making processes of the signatory states.
It is clear that the ECHR has expanded its remit considerably beyond what was originally intended in many respects and I agree that we should leave. Unfortunately I also agree that this is most unlikely to happen.
I would add that the Human Rights Act 1998, passed by the Blair government made matters much worse by incorporating the ECHR directly into UK law so that our own courts could disregard the law as it was previously if they thought it did not comply with the ECHR. A thoroughly bad move.