Thread by @PandaScottish

[thread] for both those wish to leave the
#ECHR AND remain in #ECHR

I dedicate this thread to @JackieDP

Now on the "willy waving" of @10DowningSt @RishiSunak

Why you wave it
How you wave it
When you wave it
Where you wave it
What you are waving

All matter

So the reason I say that is you go to the Rishi Sunak words of :

Rishi Sunak is prepared to take Britain out of the ECHR

Rishi Sunak might even consider leaving the ECHR

and this below from the Liasion Committee on 20/12/2022

there's also video from that committee session

So if you are admitting that leaving the ECHR has no bearing on fixing a problem

Why are you saying you "might" consider it?

And when you say you are "prepared" to leave it - can you show us what preparations you have for the consequences of the UK withdrawing from the #ECHR ?

Should be easy @RishiSunak

After all your party has a reputation for preparedness

e.g.

brexit plan written by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove

brexit impact assessments under Theresa May / David Davis

the many solutions to the NI Border Vote Leave said they had

social care

I want to focus on the ambivalence

You see I would be ok with a party that was clear in its manifesto, in an election that it wanted to leave the #ECHR

And about how it planned for the consequences of doing so

Instead....

We shall focus on the questions already asked

Why you wave it
How you wave it
When you wave it
Where you wave it
What you are waving

1. Why you wave it

Because you are desperate

You have to weaponise the topic of refugees to provide you some succour at the ballot box

To fend off UKIP/Reform

To feed the right wing Mail/Express/Scum press

But also to provide clear blue water between you and Labour

2. How you wave it

You alternate between hollow phrases or being prepared or we might and kick the actual execution into the long grass

You have a majority

If you want to leave the ECHR and believe it is justified

Get on and fucking do it

3. How you wave it

Well that is the what the drip feed of these stories are about

after all got to do everything we can to try to get Nadhim, Tory finances, Boris or Liz out of the news as much as possible

4. Where you wave it

Again

Its useful at PMQs , its useful when pandering to some of your more extreme lying racist MPs or when you are pandering to doing personal op-eds in the Scum/Express/Mail

5. What you are waving

You are literally using one of the great post war legal achievements of the United Kingdom

And using it as a weapon to peddle your BS with with electoral calculations

Have you no shame Rishi?

Is there nothing you will not weaponise for self and career?

here's a thread on how respond to questions

Note: i used the word response and not answer

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1615674195207196672

So let's get back to the #ECHR

My question is how do Labour or any opposition party tackle you on your willy waving

And I came up with a simple idea

Using an opposition day debate

With the below:

You see whether you want to leave the ECHR or remain in the ECHR

The opposition day debate will provide @10DowningSt @RishiSunak with the opportunity to clearly present the preparations he has made on the matter

Since he works night & day should be easy to provide those plans

Before I finish I also want to touch on this from @JackieDP

"Upholding the law should never be a matter for debate for a Conservative."

see also:

in a very specified and limited way

oh and also

Here's also a thread

Where I get to use two songs from Gerry Rafferty and Paul McCartney

With a focus on Josephine

And breaking the law

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1529840880005308416

You will note - in my thread above

I did not debate the merits of leaving or remaining in the #ECHR

I have already done that in this thread

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1539908580161241089

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