In 1998 Tony Blair’s Government introduced the Human Rights Act. (Image: PA/PA Wire)
Just absorb these astonishing facts for a moment then tell me you still think Britain’s continued membership of the European Convention on Human Rights holds even a shred of legitimacy.
In 1988 a very bad Turkish man with a deeply sinister history of major-league drugs trafficking and violence arrived in Britain claiming asylum.
FOUR DAYS LATER he had been understandably kicked out and was back in Turkey. Our authorities had decided Britain could live without yet another foreign drugs thug on our streets thanks, and that Turkey was a perfectly safe country anyway.
The whole thing, note, was dealt with in four days.
In 1998 Tony Blair’s Government enshrined the European Convention on Human Rights in British law through the Human Rights Act.
And that very same year the very same very bad Turkish drugs lord was granted refugee status in Britain.
To absolutely no-one’s surprise in 2004 he was jailed for 16 years for a major plot to supply heroin across the UK.
Indeed he was believed to be the crime boss of the Adu gang which was understood to have controlled almost the entire UK heroin trade.
It should perhaps give you sleepless nights on a whole host of levels that this man, this thug, this drugs lord, this vile criminal – no let’s tell it like it is – this foreign thug, this foreign drugs lord, this foreign hideous criminal, is walking Britain’s streets with impunity.
Unfathomably an Immigration Tribunal – who knew exactly what a truly bad lot this man is – granted him indefinite leave to remain, saying to do otherwise would violate Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and infringe his human rights.
The human rights of a drugs baron.
Specifically we would be infringing on his rights to a family life.
Makes your jaw drop doesn’t it? Surely the whole point of law in a civilised country is precisely to infringe the rights of an evil man to a family life? If only to protect his family.
How many times do we have to hear this before we actually stand-up for ourselves.
Seriously, would you fancy living next door to him?
No, me neither, but we very well could be because this wretched piece of human detritus was granted anonymity too – you are not allowed to know who this evil scumbag is.
Have you ever felt quite so mugged off by creepy lawyers and lefty do-gooders?
Ever felt quite so emasculated by woke idiots in positions of power way way beyond their capabilities?
Ever felt so much like you are now living in a Britain where that power now seems the sole preserve of enemies of the state? Enemies of common sense?
There’s so much wrong here it’s hard to know where to start.
First and foremost is the revelation that in 1988 we could send a sham asylum-seeker packing in just four days.
What has happened to us?
How have we become so weak and pathetic, so supine and ineffectual that we cannot rid our lands of evil people who have absolutely no right to be here?
How have our political classes become so emasculated that we are now reduced to homing 60,000 immigrants of absolutely no known provenance (a town the size of Warrington by the way, largely brought here by People Traffickers) in hotel accommodation up and down the country, indefinitely? There, these unknown people – almost solely men of soldiering age – receive three square meals a day and a weekly cash handout. How do we know these strapping blokes are not the perpetrators of the very violence they claim to be escaping?
We don’t.
All this is paid for by you of course – a people, and a country, which really cannot afford to.
The annual cost of this largesse is approaching £5Bn a year.
That’s quite a big chunk of the £22Bn black hole Labour keeps banging on about.
There’s a liberal trope that if we leave the ECHR Britain somehow turns its back on human rights.
It doesn’t.
It just means we get to use our own elected people, to frame our own human rights laws for the majority, not for the lawyers or indeed the criminals.