Theresa May and the Human Rights Act

I was preparing a barnstorming piece on Theresa May's missed opportunity to attack this iniquitous piece of legislation but then I read Gildas the Monk's article on Anna Raccoon and I thought why bother; this article says it all and far more eloquently than I could have managed. So go read it all, here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite:

'I quite like Theresa May. It may be because I am an inveterate flirt and quite like posh women with fancy tastes in shoes. I don’t know. And when she makes a serious point that the legal system is being abused by a motley collection – nay, army – of thieves, murderers, drug dealers and malefactors who make hay in the United Kingdom by virtue of the “Yuman Rights” Act, she should be on solid ground with me.

The “Yuman Rights” Act, by the way, is an Act of Parliament which says that if you are a law abiding citizen of this country you are not allowed to complain if some Somali pirate with a penchant for knife crime stabs someone in the neck and we cannot throw him out of the country, back into the nasty pit whence he crawled. Provided, that is, he has managed to sire some offspring with one of his crack whores first, in which case he has a “right to family life” and is entitled to remain here. Usually at public expense.

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Why can’t politicians get their speeches to back up what they are saying with hard fact? As I leafed through the Sunday Times a couple of days ago, for example, I noticed an article on page 20 which detailed the systematic abuse of Human Rights law to avoid extradition by Albanian criminals found guilty in their absence of crimes, including murder using a sub machine gun (at a cost of millions to the tax payer).

And the case of a Mr Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali. Mr Ali was sentenced to nine years for helping the 21/7 bombers who killed more than fifty innocent people and maimed and seriously injured many more, but he can’t be deported because he might face “inhuman treatment” in his native Eritrea. Which begs some questions. Why was he here in first place? How was he allowed in? How did he get here? What will happen when, not if, he is released? Presumably he will vote Tory and join a golf club? Maybe not…

I am a great believer in the maxim that if you are going to do something, you had better do it well. If you are going to put the boot into the lunatic Human Rights industry, take a good long run up, and put that boot in properly and hard, right where it hurts. Get your facts rigorously right. If you wish to complain about the bloody cat, quote the judgement, quote the words, set the context…

Be relentless, merciless, dry, and to the point. Find the best examples. Spell them out in soulless, cold, unremitting and accurate detail. Tell us the costs of the fiasco in lawyers fees. The case is crying out to be made.'