We will only find out whether Rwanda scheme succeeds or fails when flights finally take off
Defy the ECHR
IT was a sickening and undemocratic outrage that the Rwanda migrants scheme was blocked last year at the 11th hour by a secretive, anonymous judge in Strasbourg.
That faceless meddler was petitioned by left-wing human rights lawyers, egged on by the open-borders fans of the Labour Party — who naively consider all small-boats migrants “refugees”.
ReutersSuella Braverman reckons ECHR judges will be less keen to interfere now that we have the Illegal Migration Bill[/caption]
Ever since, that ECHR ruling has enabled Labour to claim the Rwanda deterrent they hate has “failed” . . . though it staggers us they still trot this drivel out.
A child can see through it.
We will only find out whether this scheme, ruled lawful by our High Court, succeeds or fails when flights are finally allowed to take off.
And Home Secretary Suella Braverman reckons ECHR judges will be less keen to interfere now that we have threatened to ignore them via Rishi Sunak’s new Illegal Migration Bill.
That’s great news. But why didn’t we stand up to them before?
For years we ignored the ECHR’s demand that we give prisoners the vote.
Why didn’t we defy it on this too, as so many of its other members routinely do?
Boris in dock
CAN all seven MPs sitting in judgement on Boris Johnson this week honestly claim to be impartial? Come off it.
We hope they at least grasp the magnitude of the decision they have to take.
Boris Johnson will give evidence in his defence over PartygateGetty
Finding him guilty could mean a former PM ultimately being booted out of Parliament on their say-so.
They had better be scrupulously unbiased. And they had better be right.
They will need to be certain Boris knew that those glasses of wine he occasionally raised with the No10 colleagues he worked alongside all day during Covid broke lockdown rules.
If his aides told him they were legal, the committee must be sure Boris knew that advice to be wrong but deliberately misled parliament in saying the rules were followed.
How can they know that?
Some members have plainly prejudged his guilt, as their damning initial report indicates.
Labour’s Harriet Harman is especially unlikely to be swayed by any defence Boris puts up.
But MPs’ standing is at rock-bottom.
If millions of voters who still like Boris conclude he has been stitched up by a kangaroo court it will never recover.
Joke justice
THE leniency towards speedboat killer Jack Shepherd is scandalous.
It’s not just that his drunken negligence took Charlotte Brown’s life.
PA:Press AssociationThe leniency towards speedboat killer Jack Shepherd is scandalous[/caption]
On bail, he bottled a barman, fled abroad and had to be extradited.
A woman dead, a man maimed by a cowardly thug who cocked a snook at justice.
Yet he’ll be out in months after less than half his already derisory sentence.
No wonder Charlotte’s family despair.
