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This is a hot mess. The Human Rights Act enshrines the ECHR and the judgements of the ECJ above UK law. Turkey, by comparison, hasn’t enshrined this in Turkish law. Turkey is actually an authoritarian regime that abuses human rights, including ethnic minorities as well as illegally occupying...

That’s because I’m not a legal expert. I don’t know what law(s) or previous judgements would be used to argue the case. You’ve missed the point going down this rabbit hole. The ruling is unpopular and gives Reform ammunition to support their policy of scrapping the ECHR. The judgement was...

Then us returning the constitutional settlement as it was in 1997 is hardly the same as North Korea or Russia. It’s pretty clear that this a big misconception when criticising plans to leave the ECHR. Which is a condition of EU membership so all candidate countries and EEA would seek...

How do you expect me to respond to this rambling nonsense? Go and have a cup of tea for goodness sake.

You’d fall back on English common law which has a much richer tradition of safeguarded civil liberties centuries before the ECHR was dreamt up.

Why do this stupid routine continually? Repealing the HRA brings us back to the state of Britain in 1997. The USA, Canada, Australia, NZ aren’t signed up to the ECHR. It’s not a problem that you disagree on policy. You’re a bad faith actor. If you think leaving the ECHR and repealing the HRA...

You’ve got the wrong end of the stick here actually. If the HRA and ECHR regime can be used to stop the boats, deport failed asylum seekers and so on, I’m all for remaining. These two pieces of legislation/conventions have caused problems for government policy back when Blair was PM. Who he...

The navy patrolling the English Channel and physically turning the boats around. If they scuttle the boats, send them back in lifeboats. Again, as soon as it becomes apparent that boats will be turned around and one will set foot in the UK… the market for crossing disappears. Hence the numbers...

Lol - is this a serious question? It was cited in the Home Office’s appeal and in the judgement. It’s a pyrrhic victory because it further confirms what many people are already thinking; it’s no longer fit for purpose and needs to be scrapped.

Actually, turning boats back to France is practical and you also need third country processing. The point here is you can’t let people come to the UK and remain. The system needs deterrence and as soon as people realise there’s a low % chance you’ll make it to UK territory, the boats will stop...

It’s another own goal for the ECHR. Another nail in the coffin.

This is true but the visas granted outnumbered the vacancies which tells you there’s abuse in the system that’s not being policed. What to do with people who were granted entry for a health and social care visa and are not in that field? If they’re in violation of their visa, deportation...

This is a straw man argument because Points 2 and 3 still feed into point 1. In fact, it’s irrelevant if their perceptions of how people got here if the gut feeling is that immigration is too high. Net migration was 50k pre-1997 pretty consistently. So 2000-2025 levels of migration is...

On immigration, there isn’t single policy polling and just about every question leads to the same answer: they want less of it. Hence, Reform are polling ahead of Labour. The only instances where this isn’t the case: - they’re well off - they pay more tax than they take out - they’re NHS...

I don’t think so. Tice and Farage have been flirting with left wing ideas around nationalisation and reindustrialisation. Instinctively, they’re both obviously Thatcherites but can clearly see that Reform’s base has many voters/potential voters who are economically left-populist. Let’s see...

Did you forget that Labour were in power for 1997-2010? Mass migration from the EU was an issue going into the 2010 election. Hence ‘bigotgate’ with Brown on the campaign trail.

There’s no point electioneering at this point to be fair. ‘The Left’ in this country deserve to feel as aghast at the state of this Labour government in the same way ‘The Right’ felt about 14 years of Tories. Distrust in the established parties is rife all over the Continent and we’ve done...

Both players are obviously a lot better Simms that was never a serious point of contention 😂 If you’re going to say ‘x’ stat makes you ‘the worst striker’ in the league and arguably our best striker ever had similar stats… either the statement is untrue or you’re not measuring players equally...

Many Tories felt like this going into 2024 and believed people would be deterred for voting for Reform because of the prospect of a Labour government. Well, we know that didn’t happen. Despite this only happening last year, the same people in Labour circles believe people won’t vote for a...

There is a demand and the fact that Reform and Conservatives are polling around 40-45% should tell you something. 85% of those polled want net migration below 100k. 65% of even Green voters (the lowest % btw) want to deport foreign sex offenders. 2 Tory governments elected to deliver this...