GP Taylor: Human rights gravy train is threat to life

I love living in Britain. I love it even more now I have the hope that we might be leaving the EU '“ if the Remainers don't try and fix another vote or block legislation.
Author GP TaylorAuthor GP Taylor
Author GP Taylor

I see the EU and especially the European Court of Human Rights as the greatest threat to our public safety.

When a country hands power to another state and gives it higher authority, then you are living in dangerous times. Can you imagine a law that would allow a foreign terrorist to be able to commit a crime in Britain and still be allowed to stay?

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Well, it happens all the time. Baghdad Meziane ran a network providing fraudulent passports and credit cards for jihadists. He avoided being sent back to his birth place of Algeria. All because of a piece of legislation called the Human Rights Act. Two other men convicted of aiding and abetting terrorists behind a failed bomb plot in London on July 21, 2005, have also evaded deportation using the same legislation.

Everyone knows the name of Abu Qatada, the hate preacher who used the European Court to stay in Britain for many years. His case cost a staggering £2m.

It is not just terrorists who use this court to remain here. There are scores more hardened criminals who have taken Britain to court in cases that are paid for by you and me. Thousands of them are being allowed to stay because they claim being deported would be against their human rights to have a family. Tell that to the families of their victims and see what response you would get.

It is disgusting that people who come here as our guests and then abuse our hospitality should be allowed to abuse the legal system and use faulty legislation to stay. In some cases these people are on benefits and are entitled to legal aid. This just fuels a mini-culture of lawyers who clog up the judicial system with cases. This gravy train is costing the taxpayer millions each year. Lawyers know that a case taken to Strasbourg will make them thousands of pounds, money that could be best spent elsewhere.

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Nestled in the back pages of the Conservative manifesto was a plan to scrap the law and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. Now that we are uncoupling from Europe this should be done as a matter of priority.

It is so important that our security and police forces are not tied up keeping jihadists we can’t deport under surveillance. It costs thousands of pounds per week just to monitor one potential terrorist.

As we have seen last week in Nice, just one warped individual can cost the lives of many people. It is therefore essential that we kick out as many criminals as we can in a short a time as possible.

If they then feel they want to complain, let them do it.

Britain has always prided itself on being a tolerant country and so it should always remain, but some people are just taking the mickey out of our hospitality.

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We already have laws in place that protect the individual, human rights are at the foundation of our way of life.

No one would object to a Bill of Rights that included the right to life, liberty and security of person; the right to a fair trial; protection from torture and ill treatment; freedom of thought, conscience, religion, speech and assembly; the right to marry; the right to free elections; the right to fair access to the education system; and the right not to be discriminated against.

These are essentials for a modern, tolerant society, but they should not be open to abuse.

I believe that an individual gives up his human rights if he commits murder, terrorism or a serious offence. The right to freedom is taken away from that individual for a period of time. If the offender is a foreign national, they should then be deported immediately. This should not only apply to those convicted of offences. If a person is suspected of having links to terrorism, then they too should be deported.

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Why should we allow people to stay here and plot murder and mayhem all because an EU court says that sending them home might be in breach of their human rights? Theresa May should have the Bill of Rights at the top of her agenda.

The celebrity luvvies that will be trotted out by Liberty to protest against losing the Human Rights Act should look long and hard at the bloodstained streets of Europe and to all the lives destroyed 
by criminals given the right to remain 
in Britain through a law that allows 
them to do so.

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