DANIEL HANNAN TAKES AIM AT PEERS, EUROPHILE JUDGES AND WOKE QUANGOCRATS

"The Rwanda Bill is not just about immigration any more. It's about the sovereignty of Parliament - or whether we're now ruled by liberal judges"

 

Daily Mail: 20th March 2024: Lord Hannan explains the true significance of Peers next actions on Rwanda Bill 

... If Rishi Sunak somehow manages to see the ­policy through to fruition, at least some voters might look at him with renewed interest... Hence the significance of today’s vote in the House of Lords.

[Today, Peers] must decide whether the House of Lords is part of the ‘they’ that voters complain about — the amorphous coalition of human rights activists, radical lawyers, Europhile judges and woke quangocrats... 

What Labour needs to decide — for it is Labour and Lib Dem peers who are holding up this Bill — is whether to go further and sabotage a policy that has the support of a majority of voters and MPs... 

Even if the Opposition backs down, that will not be the end of the story. Many of our judges detest the Rwanda scheme, and might legislate from the bench to block it... as judicial review has grown, so has the readiness of judges to strike down democratic decisions...

... the check on Parliament comes, not from our courts, but from our electorate... Yet, with increasing bellicosity, courts now take it upon themselves to make effectively political decisions, ruling on the basis of what they think the law ought to say rather than what it says...

A powerful and unelected legal establishment is advancing an agenda that would never be approved at the ballot box. That is why the fate of the Rwanda proposal is so important. This is not just about immigration policy. It is not even about the next election. It’s about whether Parliament is sovereign. Whether, in short, we get to hire and fire the people who make our laws.

 

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