Law’s an ass
FOR years left-wing activist judges have abused the European Convention on Human Rights to spare hardened foreign criminals deportation and grant them new lives in Britain.
No sob story seems too feeble for them.
For years left-wing activist judges have abused the European Convention on Human Rights to spare hardened foreign criminals deportation[/caption]
Article 8 of the ECHR grants anyone the right for their “private and family life” to be respected.
Which acts as the perfect excuse for virtue-signalling judges who dislike borders and who will never personally face any consequences from allowing criminals with no genuine case for remaining in Britain to roam free.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is right to review the misuse of Article 8, though we are less than optimistic about that effecting any measurable improvement.
But when the Henry Jackson Society think-tank urges Keir Starmer to quit the ECHR if necessary and persuade France, Germany and Italy to do the same they have another think coming.
They might as well urge him to lead a manned mission to the supposedly plankton-infested planet K2-18b, 124 light years away.
Neither is going to happen.
The PM is a human rights lawyer.
The ECHR is his Bible.
For him and his Attorney General Richard Hermer, its edicts might as well have been carried by Moses down Mount Sinai.
Hermer visited the Council of Europe personally to tell them as much.
The PM has made some startling U-turns lately, but this is one we cannot imagine.
Which leaves Reform committed to binning it and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories strongly considering it.
Labour simply must fix this broken law, or expect a backlash at the next election.
Trans rage
THE fury of the trans-rights brigade over the historic Supreme Court decision is predictable and revealing.
Some who used to argue — when the court was holding up Brexit — that its rulings were sacrosanct and beyond reproach call this one vile and wrong.
Others pretend it doesn’t mean what everyone knows it to mean: That women-only spaces are now for biological women alone.
Still others say they will violate the law and use any facilities they fancy.
In other words, obey only laws they agree with.
At least the Government, after a day of muddle and absurd spin, now seems clear.
“This is the law,” it says.
“We expect public service bodies to comply.”
Good. Better late than never.
Trump stumped
AFTER pledging to end the Ukraine war in a day, Donald Trump now looks set to give up on peace-making as too hard.
Just as anyone with a proper grasp of the conflict could have told him.
Putin cannot be reasoned with, any more than a mad dog.