If the establishment politicians who pretended to support Brexit to boost their careers had really wanted to ‘take back control,’ they would have pulled Britain out of the Strasbourg-based European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)—used by those unconcerned by uncontrolled migration and banned terrorist groups—years ago.
Their failure to do so means the national newspapers contain (often ludicrous) stories on the anti-British applications of the convention on at least a weekly basis, with many more instances no doubt going unreported.
Most recently, it was revealed that Afghan migrants have brought as many as 22 ‘family members’ to the UK because—as The Daily Telegraphput it—British courts “repeatedly expanded the eligibility criteria, citing the European Convention on Human Rights” (emphasis added).
One High Court judge ruled last November that ‘family members’ need not have any blood or legal connection to the applicant; that “the term ‘family member’ does not have any fixed meaning in law or in common usage”; and that “there may be cultural considerations.”
Journalist Sam Ashworth-Hayes described this as the latest example of “judicial activism” being “absolutely out of control.”
Tory MP Neil O’Brien added that it was “yet another reminder why we must leave ECHR.” But just as this didn’t happen under O’Brien’s party while it was in government—for 14 years—it certainly won’t happen under Keir Starmer’s Labour administration, which earlier this year recommitted Britain to the convention as part of a “new strategic partnership” with the European Union.
Lawyers are now hoping to use the ECHR to force the UK into accepting thousands more Afghan migrants. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice said the British people have been “lied to, deceived, and betrayed enough,” adding:
Using ECHR to force more mass immigration will not end well.
The British people will not tolerate ambulance chasing human rights lawyers trying to force up to 100,000 + Afghan chancers into UK asylum
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
