@iAnonPatriot As a London of 20 years may I gently clarify that this claim of out if control crime and immigration is absolute weapons grade horse shit, with no basis neither in fact nor lived reality.
Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.
Why is everybody obsessed with leaving the ECHR?
It isn't about immigration it is about their billionaire owners
Leaving the ECHR allows them to rewrite all your Rights, Pensions, access to Healthcare, Paid Leave, Sick Leave, Disability...
They will decide YOU don't need any
@RupertLowe10 You forgot to mention that leaving the ECHR would also allow future governments can pick and choose which human rights the rest of us are entitled to, which deep down you know is the real reason your paymasters pushing for it.
@petemorristwit That's a straw man argument. No one claims that's what'll happen. What is true is that leaving the ECHR would make it easier for future governments to 'cherry pick' which rights we can keep and that's a very dangerous path to go down.
@JuliaHB1 Because sadly experience tells us that if they didn't, some people (perhaps even you) would immediately try and use this tragedy as an opportunity to whip up hatred towards immigrants.
His children will not get the chance to sit in the Lords based on the title alone-a fact the earl is more than resigned to
"The big time for the Courtenay family was around 1100. Ever since then it's been a kind of slight gentle winding down of glories"
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@ForeverScept Just because it's spent outside of the UK doesn't mean it wasn't in the UK's direct interests. Foreign aid and investment is a crucial part of building and maintaining the 'soft power' that helps keep us safe and protect our political and economic interests across the globe.
@JuliaHB1 The strength of feeling on both sides of the argument shows that this absolutely isn't an 'absurdly simple question'. Whichever way the judgement went today, there'd have been a group of people feeling less safe, and we should all be sympathetic of that.
@Lord_Talbot64 Saturday was the earliest opportunity for them to do so legally as that's when the emergency legislation came into force. Just because you don't like the government doesn't mean everything they do is a conspiracy!
@PheasPower@JohnGlenUK If you think that Ukraine surrendering will stop Putin from starting any more wars, then you've not been paying any attention to Putin's actions over the past two decades. In reality, it'll just give him the confidence to push further, leading even more death and suffering.
@Universal_Probe@JohnGlenUK How on earth do you look at the long history of Putin's critics getting poisoned, mysteriously falling out of windows etc, and then immediately jump to the conclusion that must have been MI5 who did it. Utterly nuts.
@angelazhay@afneil Exactly. Putin is never going to back down voluntarily. So the only options are to keep supporting Ukraine's armed resistance, or roll over and let Putin help himself to north and eastern Europe. Unfortunately there is no easy route to peace for as long as Putin is in power.
@GavinRamonShow @i_iratus Two things. 1) This is being paid from interest on seized Russian assets and (2) having Putin destabilise Europe and it's economy is not what the British people need right now either