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Publius's avatar

"we at some point need an elected government, and parliament to assert its own authority and start doing things - worrying about the diplomatic and legal niceties later."

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Glad I can agree with you on that. We certainly don't want to contribute to building an international rights structure complete with courts, judges and, eventually, enforcement.

One should bear in mind that Braverman's ECHR initiative is as much a political act as a technical statement. Whatever one may think of the technics, she has achieved the political effect of getting the topic on the agenda and moving the window.

Whether the HRA can be sufficiently tamed while still in the ECHR remains, in my view, an open question.

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David Holmes's avatar

Rwanda was a good idea in principle, but totally impractical.

Choose somewhere like the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, possibly some remote Scottish Islands, possibly Ascension Island at a push (too nice a climate though). They are all British, the the EU/ECHR can therefore go forth and multiply as it has nothing to do with them. Bung any locals a million quid a person to relocate; it'll still be cheaper than renting Travelodge for hundreds in city centres for years on end. Such remote places will also reduce the number of children they can potentially sexually assault - unless it is their own which is unlikely as 95% of 'asylum seekers' are young males fleeing hostility yet leaving their wives and children there.

Amazing that no politician and nobody in the civil service thought of this. But then again that would have required a commitment to actually solving this problem - which is not part of their agenda.

Then again, Starmenfuhrer will probably give away most of these islands in the near future to prevent such action - and pay millions for the privilege.

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