Thread by @DimitriosGian

"HM's government will play a leading role in defending democracy and freedom across the world".
HM's government will repeal the Human Rights Act.
#Queenspeech #HumanRights #HumanRightsAct
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The Govt have gone to the @coe and rightly pleaded with them to expel Russia, for gross human rights violations in Ukraine.
Yet the Govt has now also formally announced its plans to substitute the HRA with a UK Bill of Rights (and undermine the operation of the ECHR in the UK).

@coe 3. Contradictions and sheer hypocrisy from the Govt, Baroness @SarahLudford: "HMG will ensure the Constitution is defended". Defended against whom? The Judiciary, deploying human rights, to protect it?

https://twitter.com/SarahLudford/status/1524016218197397505

4. Defended by whom? Those who continuously sought to bypass it (in Miller 1 and Miller 2 e.g.), and who now attack its human rights foundations?

5. "HM's Ministers will restore the balance of power between the legislature and the courts by introducing a Bill of Rights".
Which assumes an imbalance in favour of the judiciary that exists only in the imagination of far right ideologues in the Conservative party.

6. In view of overwhelming evidence that it has received, in favour of protecting the Human Rights Act, the Independent Human Rights Act Review made modest suggestions for reform, but their report fell on deaf ears and the Govt is pushing through for mere political expediency.

7. The Govt should be listening to what the former President of the @UKSupremeCourt said here:

https://twitter.com/DimitriosGian/status/1519727943026679809

8. They should be listening to Parliament itself, the @HumanRightsCtte's serious concerns on HRA reform for instance:

https://twitter.com/HumanRightsCtte/status/1514166500478779393

@HarrietHarman @SarahLudford #QueensSpeech #HumanRightsAct

9. And to those dedicated, personally, ethically and professionally, all their lives, to protecting our rights...
theguardian.com/law/2022/may/0… @amnesty @libertyhq @BIHRhumanrights @FreefromTorture @marthaspurrier #ECHR @coe #QueensSpeech

10. Important to note a symbolic contradiction too, @SarahLudford. Justice Secretary @DominicRaab delivering a Queen's Speech (to Prince Charles) engineered to undermine fundamental human rights, judicial independence and, ultimately, the rule of law.

11. Interesting emphasis here too, on "HM's Ministers" (leading on the attack on the Human Rights Act).

https://twitter.com/DimitriosGian/status/1524019833595170818

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