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The Writing's On The Wall
'Mass migration brought the German government to its knees – the rest of Europe will follow
Leaving the ECHR is the only option for countries who wish to regain sovereignty over their borders'
Telegraph headline.
I agree - do you ?
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I do agree because I believe the ECHR is past its sell by date.
However, to expect it to cure mass illegal migration is a bi of a forlorn hope.
Looking at the UK in particular, comparitively very few migrants remain here courtesy solely of the ECHR. They remain here because the country simply cannot be bothered to remove them.
They are allowed to arrive, settle and remain here because the UK accepts a unilateral interpretation by the UN of its own Refugee Convention. This says that legal action can be taken against those who do not come directly from a place where their lives or safety are in danger. This applies to about 99.9% of illegal arrivals into the UK who come predominantly from France.
But the UN has declared that stopping off in various countries en route for months, sometimes years, does not break that definition.
Withdrawing from either of these conventions will not prevent or reduce the number of arrivals. Nor will "tackling the gangs" and nor would the threat of sending a few of them to Rwanda.
It might help if tthey were not made welcome and comfortable when they arrived but as I keep saying, the only thing that will do the job is physically preventing them from landing. Anything else is peeing in tthe wind.
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