In a letter to MPs, seen by the BBC, the home secretary said there was “more than a 50% chance” that the legislation was incompatible with the ECHR.
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Ms Braverman told MPs the legislation would not come with a formal confirmation that it complied with human rights law, but she did not explain why.
The explanation is simple – pure evil
It wasn’t a mistake, but she’s a KC. She knows how to lie convincingly in front of a court.
Every other way hasn’t included compassion.
Tories and compassion are like dogs and the colour red: they’re literally unable to perceive it if it’s right in front of them; they have no meaningful understanding of its existence.
Or creating an asylum application system that can a) decide a case in under six months and b) reach results that aren’t routinely successfully appealed.
You’d have thought that after being in government in one form or another since 2010, getting your decision making aligned with the law would be a thing that is possible.
Almost makes you think it’s not about fixing the asylum system…
There’s another aspect to this immigration policy that’s not being talked about, which is the impending shitstorm it represents for devolution.
We know the tories want to scrap the Human Rights Act, which ensures compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights, so they can replace it with a new British Bill of Rights.
Introducing unworkable immigration legislation (in my opinion deliberately unworkable), which is almost certainly in direct conflict with the HRA, is a major step towards scrapping the act. They want to be able to say that the HRA, and compliance with the ECHR, is stopping them from dealing with the problem effectively.
Chapter 8 of the Lords Select Committee on the UK, the EU and a British Bill of Rights is titled “The impact of repealing the Human Rights Act in the devolved nations”:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldeucom/139/13911.htm
They conclude that:
"180.Human rights are entrenched in the devolution settlements of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a way that they are not under the UK’s constitution: acts of the devolved legislatures can, for example, be quashed by courts for non-compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights or the EU Charter.
181.The evidence we received from the Scottish and Welsh Governments demonstrates strong support for the role of the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter to be preserved in those nations. The evidence we received from the Government of the Republic of Ireland and Professors Anthony and McCrudden went somewhat further in emphasising the vital role being played by the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act in implementing the Good Friday Agreement.
182.The evidence demonstrates that the Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly are unlikely to give consent to a Bill of Rights which repealed the Human Rights Act (we did not receive evidence on this point from the National Assembly for Wales). Were the UK Government to proceed without such consent, it would be entering into uncharted constitutional territory.
183.The difficulties the Government faces in implementing a British Bill of Rights in the devolved nations are substantial. Given the seemingly limited aims of the proposed Bill of Rights, the Government should give careful consideration to whether, in the words of the Secretary of State, it means unravelling “the constitutional knitting for very little”.221 If for no other reason, the possible constitutional disruption involving the devolved administrations should weigh against proceeding with this reform."
In other words, devolution is a huge obstacle to the tories scrapping the HRA, they are already very much aware of this, have been warned against pursuing it, but their actions demonstrate that they fully intend to go ahead with it.
I’ve stolen this from someone else’s post somewhere on the internet but Stop The Boats is just a local rebranding of Build The Wall.
I’m assuming that Patel & Braverman recently watched Children of Men and thought it was a roadmap.
To the Tories, running roughshod over devolution is a feature, not a bug. They never wanted any of the devolved parliaments to exist in the first place, in the same way as they have been opposed to every extension of democracy on these islands since the reign of Charles II.
Whenever Tories talk about sending people to Rwanda it’s like they’re being dystopian on purpose
Corrected for accuracy.
“Tories … [a]re being dystopian on purpose.”
They did just ban child marriage in the UK, but I don’t know if that was by accident.
I’m totally in favour of banning child marriage, but when the tories do it, I have to wonder if it’s to try and give the impression that there’s a huge problem with child marriage here, which people will of course assume is because of immigration.
This line is what really going to make the difference to the crumbling migrant system.
Oh wait - that’s Patel’s quote from the last years Nationalities and Borders Act.
They have no intention of fixing anything, it’s a manufactured crisis - and this is another policy designed to fail, so they can blame the ECHR, lawyers, the opposition, and of course, migrants.
She has very little court experience, her short legal experience is in planning law, and was only made a QC/KC because its a Courtesy QC/KC for senior law-related government posts.
