Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦

Runner, swimmer, cyclist. Detest the Tories. Disgusted by this shower of a government - Not In My Name. Proudly Woke (though don’t like Tofu) #GTTO #FBPPR #FBPA

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@SlenderSherbet I’ve no photo Paul, but just wanted to say thank you for what you do. 👏👏👏

[A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR @acgrayling]

'No appetite'? This is such a weasel argument. There is huge appetite - and rationality itself is screaming at us to stop this nonsense.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

If UK news shows are going to give Boris Johnson a platform to spout his absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it

We cannot allow those once in power to rewrite history.

If you agree RT this FACT CHECK

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

We cannot allow those once in power to rewrite history. I simply won’t stand by & allow that to happen

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@delilahjeary @tombradby @ITV .@tombradby - why didn’t you correct Johnson’s lies about the vaccine rollout? We were still under the EMA rules which allowed EU member states to procure vaccines alone. Nothing to do with Brexit 🤦

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video.
It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make.

Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main problem with illegal or irregular migration is that when a person comes here and claims asylum, they may get it as a bona fide refugee in which case they can stay. That has nothing to do with the ECHR. It is a consequence of our domestic law and the Refugee Convention. He makes no suggestion we should leave it.
For those whose application is refused the main problem is that it is very difficult to return them to their countries of origin which will often not co-operate particularly if documents have been destroyed.
So leaving the ECHR will have minimal impact on the problem he claims to be addressing.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

His next argument is even odder. He claims that UKForces are being obliged to kill rather than detain on combat operations because the ECHR requires prisoners to be released.
This is just wrong. The ECHR requires no such thing. Indeed there is a case called Hassan v U.K. at the Court ofHuman Rights that makes clear that the ECHR has to be read alongside the Geneva Conventions and that detention of prisoners taken in combat or suspected of being combatants is allowed.
There was a problem in Afghanistan with detention of suspected combatants due to Afghan law, not the ECHR.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

Jenrick also claims that the ECHR allows terrorists to be on our streets.
As I can think of no reason why a person suspected of terrorism can't be arrested and tried, I think he must be referring here to issues with deporting foreigners convicted of terrorism offences after their release at the end of their sentences.
We do not kill or torture our own home grown convicted terrorists on their release from their sentences. So sending a foreigner to a place where there is significant risk this will happen is indeed contrary to the ECHR and may therefore be impossible. It is a question of what standards of behaviour you should expect from a civilised state.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

Jenrick's examples are also left without detail and an mislead. Only one concerns a decision of of the European Court of Human Rights. That was Akindoyin Akinshipe. He was 15 when he committed his offence and 17 when released. His family ties were here. The court accepted that the fact he was a minor did not preclude his deportation but ruled that his exemplary conduct since release and his clear rehabilitation had not been fully taken into account.
I also note that in the ZM case, the reason our own courts would not deport him was because of his severe mental health problems.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

Jenrick provides no explanation as to how he would deal with the consequences of leaving the ECHR. It underpins our current relationship with the EU. Without it we will be unable to share data essential to commerce and security and ourTCA would collapse. The Good Friday agreement requires Northern Ireland to be adherent to the ECHR and we have agreed it should. Not to discuss how he intends to get round this makes his pitch valueless.

[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

The way the ECHR is applied may at times irritate and as in all human affairs no court will always be perfect in its reasoning and decisions. But the ECHR has done immense good throughout Europe. Precisely because it is a " living instrument", it has been able to promote human rights. We take for granted today that illegitimate children should not suffer discrimination and that homosexual relationships should not be criminalised. But delivering these reforms is just some of the good work of the ECHR. As Churchill saw, it's drafting and promotion has been one of the great achievements of UK soft power for the common good of all.
At the end of his video, Jenrick gratuitously offers an irrelevant image which is intended, I infer, to show an immigrant gloating over money he is getting. The only purpose of this is to stir up hatred against immigrants. That is why we need the ECHR. It is also why he is showing himself entirely unfit for office.

[Robin Curtis 💙🇺🇦 @planetkooler.bsky.social @planetkooler]

Spread it around - 'cos this won't be on the #MSM news......@BBCNews @SkyNews @itvnews @Channel4News #RejoinEUMarch #RejoinMarch

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@prodnose Got the t-shirt!

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@christotaylo Oh that’s the best I’ve seen on here in a long time! 😀 Bravo

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter:

“The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.”

RETWEET if you agree. https://t.co/0LjrIoTBvi

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@reece_dinsdale My late father just loved Home to Roost ❤️

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@Soc_Sciences Turned off straight away when I heard her trail on @lbc at 09:45.

[Colin Kiely #FBPE 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍🇺🇦 @wobbles61]

@HeyHeyDerekFaye Harold “…and I have the plug!”