Govt is introducing a Bill that (a large number of) its own MPs are saying is going to violate international law.
Bill not dictated by national interest (in fact it undermines it).
Only comes in so that PM will 'shore up his support on Right of the party' after confidence vote
2. Bill will be sold to the MPs on the Right of the party—and Brexiteer voters—wrapped in the usual anti-juridical, anti-European, narrative: "European judges to be stripped of Northern Ireland Protocol powers under new Brexit law"
3. This is the anti-human rights narrative too. Many will confuse 'European judges' for those in Strasbourg. The attack on the European Court of Human Rights is of course alive and well in the UK.
4. While Govt is seeking to distract people with another attack on 'European judges', the real face of Brexit is political turmoil in NI—which the Govt knew was inevitable once Brexit happened, but of course never owned up to the fact.
6. "Without the same numbers of Romanians, Poles and Lithuanians ... and the Ukrainians who made up a significant portion of seasonal workers last year, [Jack Pearce, a 3rd-generation farmer in Norfolk] has had no choice but to let about £75,000 of his produce rot". #Brexit
7. "For the second year since the UK formally left the European Union there are not enough seasonal workers to pick and process the food grown in British fields."
8. "The land army of British workers that was occasionally predicted to replace them has not materialised, nor has the technology."
3. Prof Ekins: "For the Human Rights Act invites lawyers, individuals and lobby groups who are unhappy with government policies to try to undermine them by mounting challenges in the courts."
And this is wrong in a liberal democracy why exactly? #ECHR#humanrights@coe
"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?
A damning critique by Lord Neuberger, of the state of the rule of law in the UK (which was reminiscent of Lord Bingham’s work in the area) — it was the concluding presentation at this excellent workshop on 'democratic backsliding' in the UK organised by @ExeterLawSchool.
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2. Lord Neuberger pointed out that we need (and indeed have) a judiciary that is independent, respected and effective.
He then went on to describe three attacks by the executive on judicial independence, some direct and visible to all, some more pernicious that need spelling out
3. He identified Judicial Review as the first area under attack, pointing to ouster clauses, giving ministers Henry VIII powers to change statutes and attempting to reverse Miller 2
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2. ECtHR has found that where uncertainty & precariousness of individual’s situation affects network of his or her personal, social & economic relations, there can be an infringement of Art 8. A situation of insecurity should in any case be short-lived. @BRinEUROPE@NewEuropeans
3. I now want to take this a bit further & suggest that continued precariousness sh perhaps be examined in context of 'hostile environment' vis-a-vis immigrants, e.g. re immigration exception in Data Proetction, bank accounts checks, surprise raids etc @NewEuropeans@libertyhq