Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

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1. > Since 1980, the European Court of Human Rights has found against the UK in only 13 removal cases, and just four of those concerned family life. In relation to immigration rules more broadly, the Court has only three times ruled that the UK’s immigration rules violate the ECHR in the past 45 years.

   > Suggestions that the European Court of Human Rights ‘hinders’ the UK’s efforts to control immigration, the authors note, do not stand up to scrutiny.

   You would think experts in human rights would know the UK intentionally brought the ECHR into UK law to allow UK courts to hear ECHR cases in 1998. And since 1998 the interpretation of ECHR has evolved dramatically through numerous decisions.

   Yes the Daily Mail and Telegraph pick outlandish parts of cases, like the chicken nugget thing, for a headline. But that doesn’t mean the entirety of their point is lost.

2. Yet another article where the blame is not going where it belongs–on the thickos who lap this nonsense up and the comfortable left-leaning people who see the lies spouting out of the likes of the Daily Mail and Farage and refuse to engage.

   People all around the world have to deal with the same social media lies we do and yet they’re not torpedoing their economies by choosing whatever their equivalent of Brexit is or supporting liars like Farage.

3. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we cannot escape the current anti-immigration sentiment with facts and appeals to reason

   It doesn’t matter why people care about immigration and whether they’re right or wrong to do so… they care and we can’t just say “you’re wrong, here’s a fact that shows why you’re wrong” and expect it to go away. It would be nice if that worked, but it’s not going to happen

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