"Labour’s virtue-signalling human rights vandals are seizing power – but the rest of us pay a terrible price."
Telegraph: 13th February 2025: Allister Heath, writing in the Telegraph, asks when did Britain decide to replace our experiment in democracy with a tyranny of the human rights lawyers?
"What happened? When did we finally lose the plot? When did Britain decide to replace our experiment in democracy with a tyranny of the human rights lawyers?...
...The immigration tribunals may as well be trolling the public; their rulings are incendiary. Palestinians living in Gaza have been granted the right to live in the UK despite applying through an online scheme designed for Ukrainians. An Albanian criminal has escaped deportation in part because his son dislikes the “type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”. A Pakistani previously jailed for child sex offences has been allowed to stay in the UK because it would be “unduly harsh” on his children.
These UK decisions push the ECHR’s strictures to new extremes, and seem designed to mock the law-abiding majority, to signal that a new juristocracy is in charge and that the public has no choice but to suck it up...
... The problem is that we no longer have a functioning democracy: too few politicians see their jobs as representing the interests and views of the electorate. The government is no longer in control of the apparatus of state, and many ministers are content with belonging to a Potemkin cabinet, to pretend to rule while officials, European human rights, ICC or ICJ judges, international bureaucrats, the OBR, the Bank of England or the Climate Change Committee take the real decisions. A permanent and unreformable bureaucracy pursues its own ends.