If you get any chance at all to deflect and blame the legal profession for your unworkable initiatives for being fucked up, do so…
>After a period without significant numbers of crossings amid bad weather, several hundred of people made the journey in recent days, bringing the total to more than 7,000 so far this year. It is the first time this has happened since the passing of the nationalities and borders bill, which set out the policy framework.
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>Asked if Boris Johnson was disappointed the plan had not as yet deterred such crossings, the prime minister’s official spokesperson said that a series of legal challenges to the plan could be part of the reason.
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>Asked when it would be possible to know if the policy was working, he said: “I don’t think there’s a fixed date. Obviously, there are a number of variables we need to deal with, not least some of the legal challenges which have been talked about.”
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>Questioned on whether he believed would-be asylum seekers in France were reading about the legal cases and thus deciding to risk the crossing, he said: “I’m not seeking to prescribe motivation to individuals. I’m simply setting out some of the challenges that this policy has, that we expected from the start. And that’s what we’re seeing.”
If the plan were legal, he wouldn’t be worried about any ‘legal challenges’. He’d be getting on and doing it.
But he knows it’s illegal, and can never happen – this way his gullible followers get to blame ‘lefty lawyers’ and ‘EU Human Rights nonsense’
See it’s the those nasty human rights lawyers and human rights that are the problem….oh Starmer happens to be one of those. So fucking transparent their tactics now.
We did have a few on here waving figures about trying to claim the policy was a success as well.
It’s not working because it isn’t a plan.
It’s fake news like the bridge to Ireland or British space ports.
It’s to distract from all the corruption and incompetence in 1001 other matters.
So, if I understand it correctly, the UK government is suggesting that if only they could place themselves above the law, they could make a policy nasty enough to frighten people into relinquishing their right to claim asylum under international law.
Pretty brazen, I must say. Also stupid, because they’re essentially admitting that the policy was designed to rob people of their legal rights, which will almost certainly be used against them in court. Then again, triggering a slew of legal cases, and as a consequence more propaganda for their campaign against human rights and the rule of law, may be the entire point of the policy, as it won’t ever work in practice regardless.
So.. “Plan that isn’t implemented yet fails to show results from being implemented.”?
As if the people planning to cross the channel on tiny little boats were following the news relating to the legal challenges and not just waiting for the weather to clear.
An absolute joke of a plan would exsplain why this rubbish isnt working, wonder how much money has been wasted on this SO FAR?
The party with majority control of parliament cannot complain that the law is getting in the way. If they really want to do this, then they can identify the laws that block it and make the case to parliament that they should be changed.
Anything else is complaining about the rule of law.
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If you get any chance at all to deflect and blame the legal profession for your unworkable initiatives for being fucked up, do so…
>After a period without significant numbers of crossings amid bad weather, several hundred of people made the journey in recent days, bringing the total to more than 7,000 so far this year. It is the first time this has happened since the passing of the nationalities and borders bill, which set out the policy framework.
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>Asked if Boris Johnson was disappointed the plan had not as yet deterred such crossings, the prime minister’s official spokesperson said that a series of legal challenges to the plan could be part of the reason.
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>Asked when it would be possible to know if the policy was working, he said: “I don’t think there’s a fixed date. Obviously, there are a number of variables we need to deal with, not least some of the legal challenges which have been talked about.”
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>Questioned on whether he believed would-be asylum seekers in France were reading about the legal cases and thus deciding to risk the crossing, he said: “I’m not seeking to prescribe motivation to individuals. I’m simply setting out some of the challenges that this policy has, that we expected from the start. And that’s what we’re seeing.”
If the plan were legal, he wouldn’t be worried about any ‘legal challenges’. He’d be getting on and doing it.
But he knows it’s illegal, and can never happen – this way his gullible followers get to blame ‘lefty lawyers’ and ‘EU Human Rights nonsense’
See it’s the those nasty human rights lawyers and human rights that are the problem….oh Starmer happens to be one of those. So fucking transparent their tactics now.
We did have a few on here waving figures about trying to claim the policy was a success as well.
It’s not working because it isn’t a plan.
It’s fake news like the bridge to Ireland or British space ports.
It’s to distract from all the corruption and incompetence in 1001 other matters.
So, if I understand it correctly, the UK government is suggesting that if only they could place themselves above the law, they could make a policy nasty enough to frighten people into relinquishing their right to claim asylum under international law.
Pretty brazen, I must say. Also stupid, because they’re essentially admitting that the policy was designed to rob people of their legal rights, which will almost certainly be used against them in court. Then again, triggering a slew of legal cases, and as a consequence more propaganda for their campaign against human rights and the rule of law, may be the entire point of the policy, as it won’t ever work in practice regardless.
So.. “Plan that isn’t implemented yet fails to show results from being implemented.”?
As if the people planning to cross the channel on tiny little boats were following the news relating to the legal challenges and not just waiting for the weather to clear.
An absolute joke of a plan would exsplain why this rubbish isnt working, wonder how much money has been wasted on this SO FAR?
The party with majority control of parliament cannot complain that the law is getting in the way. If they really want to do this, then they can identify the laws that block it and make the case to parliament that they should be changed.
Anything else is complaining about the rule of law.