THE Human Rights Act was “misnamed” and could instead have been called the “Criminal Rights Act”, the Home Secretary has said.
Speaking in the main hall of the Tory conference, Suella Braverman also quoted the poem which inspired the slogan used by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour to claim that the Conservatives represent the “many not the few”.
The Home Secretary’s speech dealt heavily with the issue of immigration, attacking international legal treaties – as she had done in an extremist speech in the US in September – as well as Labour.
Pledging to begin closing asylum hotels in the near future, Braverman said: “The biggest reason why Conservative governments have struggled to get illegal migration under control is because Labour governments passed laws that inhibit effective action.
“The truth is, we struggle to remove foreign criminals. We struggle to get accurate data on the ages of the asylum seekers. We struggle even to confiscate their phones when they arrive on our beaches.
“Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era. And it is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act. I’m surprised they didn’t call it the Criminal Rights Act.”
The 1998 Human Rights Act aimed to enshrine in UK domestic law the rights spelled out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
While the Tories have binned plans to replace the Act through a “Bill of Rights Bill”, Braverman is one of the Conservatives who are continuing to tout leaving the European Court of Human Rights, which interprets the ECHR.
Braverman told Tory members at the party conference that people who dislike her hard-line immigration stance hold “luxury beliefs”, painting an image of a detached, privileged upper-class that oppose the Conservatives.
“The migrants that will be coming in won’t be taking their jobs. They’re more likely to have them mowing their lawns or cleaning their homes,” the Home Secretary said.
“They love soft sentences because the criminals who benefit from such ostentatious compassion won’t be terrorising their streets or grooming their children.
“They’re desperate to reverse Brexit. They think patriotism is embarrassing and have no use for their British passport unless it’s taking them to their second homes in Tuscany or the Dordogne.
“For these people I have a simple message, you are entitled to your luxury beliefs, but the British people will no longer pay for them.”
She further claimed that critics of Tory politicians were “all of them bleating the same incessant accusation: racist, racist, racist”. Braverman said the “smear” hadn’t worked on Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churchill, and that it wouldn’t work on her.
**Claiming Jeremy Corbyn’s slogan**
Closing her speech, Braverman quoted the poem which inspired Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour slogan: “For the many, not the few.”
She said: “I think we should adopt as our motto these lines from the poet [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, which I am shamelessly taking back from Labour.
“‘Rise like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep have fallen on you – You are many, they are few.’
“We stand with the many. The law-abiding, hard-working, common-sense majority, against the few. The privileged woke minority with their luxury beliefs who wield influence out of proportion to their numbers.”
Tory members gave the Home Secretary a standing ovation as she closed.
The poem The Masque of Anarchy was penned by Shelley, one of the most important romantic poets, in 1819 in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre.
Ah yes, because you haven’t had 13 years of being able to change the law yourselves.
It’s obviously the fault of people who haven’t passed a law since 2010.
Talk about dog whistling to stupid supporters.
You could subtitle this “MP for party in power for 13 years seeks to pin current state of the country on party not in power for 13 years”.
The sad thing is that far too many will believe this pack of lies.
>While the Tories have binned plans to replace the Act through a “Bill of Rights Bill”,
Which should be the end of it. Braverman is constantly complaining about problems that the Tories have the power to “solve” but won’t because they secretly admit it would be a bad idea to do things like the “Human Rights Act”.
I think Braverman would like to go one step further and blame the last 5 Tory PMs to boost her own profile, but if she went that far in public she would be booted for disloyalty.
Biggest reason for UK immigration failures for the 13th consecutive year out of office. Labour are the party of Legacy.
The Last Labour Government™.
Give it a rest, Cruella.
13 years this shower of shit have been in charge. It’s the tories responsibility and we should be telling them to fucking stop making excuses
is this the same labour that HASNT been in power for 13 years
Going after the same idiots that feel for the ‘only we can sort Brexit, even though weve been in charge of handling the whole thing’
It’s weak sauce. The 3 big national issues are cost of living, NHS and immigration. Tories can’t run on any as they are all their fault.
She has an empty magazine on this one so just making “pew pew” noises to pretend to have something to say.
And of course the original European law was in large parts (if not entirely) based on things which would have been upheld by the courts in Britain.
The government knows full well that any fundamental changes that strip away rights would likely end up before the judiciary who would simply assert that the right was fundamental in the first place.
I would expect the former attorney general to understand this, but the fact Sue-Ellen was the worst one of those of all time too.
It was Labour before, yes, but the Tories have done additional damage to this country. It was a choice.
Anything blamed on labour after this government has been in power for over a decade is just them admitting that they haven’t been willing to or haven’t been able to fix it in all this time.
“X problem was caused by Labour when they were in power”
Yeah *thirteen* years ago. What have you been doing all this time?
We should take a leaf out of Poland’s book. They just don’t tolerate any shit from illegal immigrants they just don’t let them in full stop!
Even Sweden is regretting letting them in their capital has turned into a drug infested gang run hellscape!
>you are entitled to your luxury beliefs, but the British people will no longer pay for them.”
Bugger me, but the new look ‘Class War’ party are getting loads of media attention.
Both parties have ruined the country but labour isbindeed at fault with immigration.
oh boi… DJ Tory has only one record…. “The Last Labour Government” now in the14th re-release…
The Left: we need to learn from the mistakes of history and not appeal to peoples base prejudices for support.
The Right: omg you can do that?!
Net migration last year, after 13 years of anti-immigration rhetorics from the Tories, was three times higher that the last time Labour were in charge.
Bugger off. It’s your fake conservative party. Stop pretending to be right wing and let an actual right wing party have a run.
She’s perfect proof of immigration failure. She’s tearing apart the social fabric of the country with her divisive rhetoric, whilst also sponging off the state (otherwise known as “expenses”). As always, like every other day of the week, she should fuck off. And when she gets there, fuck off some more.
95% of the questions from the media should have been “You been in power for 13 years, how are you not responsible?”
Trump playbook – the journalism won’t tackle the lie and she’ll be PM one day.
Your party has been in power for 13 fucking years, if it’s labour policies that are the problem you’ve had ample time to change it for fucks sake.
God it is fucking unbelievable these people blame Labour for low deportation rates, when Labour themselves managed to maintain a rate of deportation that was not far off 5x what her party is overseeing. Her party is literally waving on through blocks of 12,000 asylum seekers at a time with minimal checks to save time, while back in Labour’s day the acceptance rate on asylum claims was a fraction of what it now is. I just don’t understand how anyone can run on lines like this when the *slightest* effort to actually look at the facts and data shows what an absolute load of bollocks it all is. Are they that confident their own base care so little about an issue they describe as being the most important issue affecting the country? Its a proper mind-fuck trying to understand whats going on with all this really, you’d think their voters would be somewhat annoyed at basically having the piss taken out of them over things like this for so long, yet clearly they still seem to see it as a very strong electoral strategy to lean into this yet again.
They still have a majority and can essentially do whatever they want, this is beyond weak
She is just a vile person, flirting with disgusting ideas. Cant wait to see the back of her tbh.
HeRrrrrPDERRRRPADAERP LABOURRR DID THIS IN 1997!!!!
Democracy does not exist when our MPs are free to lie so openly to the public. This blatant manipulation attempt should be punishable by jail.
Lies, lies, more lies and we have expected the like from their ilk my whole life.
Their friends and donors run the BBC, our papers and most of our media.
What a fake nation we live in.
Who has been in charge of a country for last 13 years and still is?
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THE Human Rights Act was “misnamed” and could instead have been called the “Criminal Rights Act”, the Home Secretary has said.
Speaking in the main hall of the Tory conference, Suella Braverman also quoted the poem which inspired the slogan used by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour to claim that the Conservatives represent the “many not the few”.
The Home Secretary’s speech dealt heavily with the issue of immigration, attacking international legal treaties – as she had done in an extremist speech in the US in September – as well as Labour.
Pledging to begin closing asylum hotels in the near future, Braverman said: “The biggest reason why Conservative governments have struggled to get illegal migration under control is because Labour governments passed laws that inhibit effective action.
“The truth is, we struggle to remove foreign criminals. We struggle to get accurate data on the ages of the asylum seekers. We struggle even to confiscate their phones when they arrive on our beaches.
“Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era. And it is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act. I’m surprised they didn’t call it the Criminal Rights Act.”
The 1998 Human Rights Act aimed to enshrine in UK domestic law the rights spelled out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
While the Tories have binned plans to replace the Act through a “Bill of Rights Bill”, Braverman is one of the Conservatives who are continuing to tout leaving the European Court of Human Rights, which interprets the ECHR.
Braverman told Tory members at the party conference that people who dislike her hard-line immigration stance hold “luxury beliefs”, painting an image of a detached, privileged upper-class that oppose the Conservatives.
“The migrants that will be coming in won’t be taking their jobs. They’re more likely to have them mowing their lawns or cleaning their homes,” the Home Secretary said.
“They love soft sentences because the criminals who benefit from such ostentatious compassion won’t be terrorising their streets or grooming their children.
“They’re desperate to reverse Brexit. They think patriotism is embarrassing and have no use for their British passport unless it’s taking them to their second homes in Tuscany or the Dordogne.
“For these people I have a simple message, you are entitled to your luxury beliefs, but the British people will no longer pay for them.”
She further claimed that critics of Tory politicians were “all of them bleating the same incessant accusation: racist, racist, racist”. Braverman said the “smear” hadn’t worked on Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churchill, and that it wouldn’t work on her.
**Claiming Jeremy Corbyn’s slogan**
Closing her speech, Braverman quoted the poem which inspired Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour slogan: “For the many, not the few.”
She said: “I think we should adopt as our motto these lines from the poet [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, which I am shamelessly taking back from Labour.
“‘Rise like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep have fallen on you – You are many, they are few.’
“We stand with the many. The law-abiding, hard-working, common-sense majority, against the few. The privileged woke minority with their luxury beliefs who wield influence out of proportion to their numbers.”
Tory members gave the Home Secretary a standing ovation as she closed.
The poem The Masque of Anarchy was penned by Shelley, one of the most important romantic poets, in 1819 in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre.
Ah yes, because you haven’t had 13 years of being able to change the law yourselves.
It’s obviously the fault of people who haven’t passed a law since 2010.
Talk about dog whistling to stupid supporters.
You could subtitle this “MP for party in power for 13 years seeks to pin current state of the country on party not in power for 13 years”.
The sad thing is that far too many will believe this pack of lies.
>While the Tories have binned plans to replace the Act through a “Bill of Rights Bill”,
Which should be the end of it. Braverman is constantly complaining about problems that the Tories have the power to “solve” but won’t because they secretly admit it would be a bad idea to do things like the “Human Rights Act”.
I think Braverman would like to go one step further and blame the last 5 Tory PMs to boost her own profile, but if she went that far in public she would be booted for disloyalty.
Biggest reason for UK immigration failures for the 13th consecutive year out of office. Labour are the party of Legacy.
The Last Labour Government™.
Give it a rest, Cruella.
13 years this shower of shit have been in charge. It’s the tories responsibility and we should be telling them to fucking stop making excuses
is this the same labour that HASNT been in power for 13 years
Going after the same idiots that feel for the ‘only we can sort Brexit, even though weve been in charge of handling the whole thing’
It’s weak sauce. The 3 big national issues are cost of living, NHS and immigration. Tories can’t run on any as they are all their fault.
She has an empty magazine on this one so just making “pew pew” noises to pretend to have something to say.
And of course the original European law was in large parts (if not entirely) based on things which would have been upheld by the courts in Britain.
The government knows full well that any fundamental changes that strip away rights would likely end up before the judiciary who would simply assert that the right was fundamental in the first place.
I would expect the former attorney general to understand this, but the fact Sue-Ellen was the worst one of those of all time too.
It was Labour before, yes, but the Tories have done additional damage to this country. It was a choice.
Anything blamed on labour after this government has been in power for over a decade is just them admitting that they haven’t been willing to or haven’t been able to fix it in all this time.
“X problem was caused by Labour when they were in power”
Yeah *thirteen* years ago. What have you been doing all this time?
We should take a leaf out of Poland’s book. They just don’t tolerate any shit from illegal immigrants they just don’t let them in full stop!
Even Sweden is regretting letting them in their capital has turned into a drug infested gang run hellscape!
>you are entitled to your luxury beliefs, but the British people will no longer pay for them.”
Bugger me, but the new look ‘Class War’ party are getting loads of media attention.
Both parties have ruined the country but labour isbindeed at fault with immigration.
oh boi… DJ Tory has only one record…. “The Last Labour Government” now in the14th re-release…
The Left: we need to learn from the mistakes of history and not appeal to peoples base prejudices for support.
The Right: omg you can do that?!
Net migration last year, after 13 years of anti-immigration rhetorics from the Tories, was three times higher that the last time Labour were in charge.
Bugger off. It’s your fake conservative party. Stop pretending to be right wing and let an actual right wing party have a run.
She’s perfect proof of immigration failure. She’s tearing apart the social fabric of the country with her divisive rhetoric, whilst also sponging off the state (otherwise known as “expenses”). As always, like every other day of the week, she should fuck off. And when she gets there, fuck off some more.
95% of the questions from the media should have been “You been in power for 13 years, how are you not responsible?”
Trump playbook – the journalism won’t tackle the lie and she’ll be PM one day.
Your party has been in power for 13 fucking years, if it’s labour policies that are the problem you’ve had ample time to change it for fucks sake.
God it is fucking unbelievable these people blame Labour for low deportation rates, when Labour themselves managed to maintain a rate of deportation that was not far off 5x what her party is overseeing. Her party is literally waving on through blocks of 12,000 asylum seekers at a time with minimal checks to save time, while back in Labour’s day the acceptance rate on asylum claims was a fraction of what it now is. I just don’t understand how anyone can run on lines like this when the *slightest* effort to actually look at the facts and data shows what an absolute load of bollocks it all is. Are they that confident their own base care so little about an issue they describe as being the most important issue affecting the country? Its a proper mind-fuck trying to understand whats going on with all this really, you’d think their voters would be somewhat annoyed at basically having the piss taken out of them over things like this for so long, yet clearly they still seem to see it as a very strong electoral strategy to lean into this yet again.
They still have a majority and can essentially do whatever they want, this is beyond weak
She is just a vile person, flirting with disgusting ideas. Cant wait to see the back of her tbh.
HeRrrrrPDERRRRPADAERP LABOURRR DID THIS IN 1997!!!!
*AGGRESSIVE SHEEP MP MOANING CHEST THUMPING NOISES!*
Democracy does not exist when our MPs are free to lie so openly to the public. This blatant manipulation attempt should be punishable by jail.
Lies, lies, more lies and we have expected the like from their ilk my whole life.
Their friends and donors run the BBC, our papers and most of our media.
What a fake nation we live in.
Who has been in charge of a country for last 13 years and still is?
WHO IS IT, SUELLA?
# WHO IS IT?!