Britain’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights has taken a battering in the press in recent months, with no shortage of stories of criminal migrants appealing to it to remain in the country for the most ridiculous reasons, including their child’s dislike of foreign chicken nuggets (yes, really).
But its latest application has prompted critics to finally say enough is enough. This is in response to Hamas—no less—using the ECHR to challenge its proscription as a terrorist organisation in the UK.
Lawyers representing the terrorists (say it while you still can!) on Wednesday shared a lavish video on social media of them submitting a 106-page application to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, which they said contained “very, very strong legal arguments grounded in national” and, perhaps more importantly, “international law.”
They also called on Cooper to “have some courage and make the correct decision.” Responding on LBC radio, the home secretary stressed that the group committed a “barbaric terrorist attack” on October 7th—the kind of which Hamas has pledged to repeat over and over—adding:
We maintain our view about the barbaric nature of this organisation.
Yet Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s insistence that Britain will “never” withdraw from the convention could stand in the way of Hamas’ continued proscription by the UK.
The application claims the ban breaches Hamas supporters’ human rights under the ECHR by “unlawfully restricting” their freedom of speech—not that protesters have run into many blocks in London—and also goes against Britain’s obligations under international law to be “not complicit in a genocide.”
Broadcaster Martin Daubney said the submission meant “it’s time to finally admit: the ECHR is the enemy of the British people.”
We need to leave the ECHR and run these grifter lawyers out of business!
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice also asked, “What happens if the ECHR says they’re not terrorists?”
Will Keir Starmer abide by that or will he ignore such a ruling?
This is complete insanity and another reason why we must leave the ludicrous ECHR.
Political scientist and commentator Matthew Goodwin warned that rather than “keeping us safe,” the convention is “now consistently used by illegal migrants, foreign criminals and terrorists to undermine the safety and security of the British people.”
Meanwhile in France, President Emmanuel Macron has suggested he may recognise a Palestinian state at a United Nations conference in June in the (naive) hope of getting countries like Iran to recognise Israel’s right to exist—a move which Israel’s foreign minister denounced as being a “reward for terrorism.”
And in Gaza, Israel claims it is succeeding in seizing “large areas” as it continues to push Hamas into a corner in ceasefire negotiations, to the extent that what remains of the terror group’s leadership is being forced to act under increasing secrecy.
Britain’s home secretary has 90 days to respond to Hamas’s application.
