Keir Starmer should set aside the European Convention on Human Rights and deport all foreign criminals, Labour MP Jonathan Brash has said, as Left-wing voices opposing the ‘criminal rights’ charter grow. The Telegraph has the story.
Jonathan Brash, the MP for Hartlepool, said the Government should exercise its “perfectly legitimate” right to deport criminals by saying ECHR Article 8 rights to a family life do not apply in such cases.
He is thought to be the first Labour MP to publicly declare that the Government should ignore the ECHR in order to return convicted foreign criminals back to their home countries.
It follows a series of cases exposed by the Telegraph where illegal migrants or convicted foreign criminals have used human rights laws to remain in the UK or halt their deportations. Many have used Article 8 of the ECHR, which protects the right to respect for private and family life.
They include an Albanian criminal who avoided deportation after claiming his son had an aversion to foreign chicken nuggets and a Pakistani paedophile, who was jailed for child sex offences but escaped removal from the UK as it would be “unduly harsh” on his children.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is considering whether to restrict foreign criminals and illegal migrants from exploiting the ECHR to block their deportations.
She is reviewing how Article 8 of the ECHR, which guarantees the right to family life, is being applied by immigration courts to ensure that it is being interpreted in a “sensible” and “proportionate” way.
Speaking on GB News, Jonathan Brash said: “I don’t think it’s a particularly controversial view to say that if our government wants to deport a foreign criminal, they should be able to.
“The ECHR allows for that in issues of public safety and national security. It’s perfectly legitimate for a government to say Article 8 is not applying here, we are deporting a foreign criminal.
“And if that’s a controversial view for anyone, I don’t know what they’re thinking about because quite frankly, if someone is a danger to the public in this country, they should be deported. It’s as simple as that.
He added: “If you are a criminal and you are proposing harm to the British people, and you’re not from this country and you’re here illegally, you should be deported.
“It can’t really be much simpler than that, and we have to get to a position where we deliver that. I think reviewing how it’s applied, as has happened in other countries very successfully, is exactly the right thing to do.
Other Labour MPs – particularly from Red Wall constituencies where Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is a major threat – support restrictions on judges’ increasingly expansionist interpretations of the ECHR to overturn deportation orders.
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As time goes by, and the same crappy and depressing news stories keep assaulting us on a daily basis, views like Jim’s here begin to make more and more sense;
”While the idea of a military coup is drastic and uncomfortable to many, it’s born out of a very real and growing sense of desperation – a belief that the democratic process has been hijacked beyond repair. When every political party, across the spectrum, refuses to act in the national interest, ignores the will of the people, and accelerates policies that undermine national identity, sovereignty, and cultural survival, what realistic options are left?
Western Europe’s institutions have become bloated, corrupt, and openly hostile to their own populations. Both the Uk and the EU have shown they will bend the rules – or rewrite them altogether – to keep national populist movements out of power. If that means crushing democratic mandates, censoring speech, or importing more votes through mass migration, so be it. And they’ve proven they’ll do it.
So yes, when elections no longer change anything, when borders are wide open, when your own government is facilitating cultural displacement and collapse, many start to look to the military – not out of bloodlust, but out of sheer necessity. Because the military’s oath is not to a party or to Brussels – it is to the nation.
And let’s be clear: this isn’t about conquest or dictatorship – it’s about survival. It’s about preserving what remains of Western civilisation, restoring national sovereignty, securing borders, and protecting the people who have been systematically betrayed by their so-called leaders.
No one wants it to come to this. But when every peaceful, democratic route is closed off or corrupted, the responsibility falls to those still willing and able to act in defence of their nation. And increasingly, that may be the men and women in uniform.”
https://x.com/JChimirie66677/status/1904508277393654105
I wish I shared your trust in the armed forces to act in the national interest. With all the stories about developing electrically powered battle tanks, or overlooking top pilot candidates for being too white, I wonder whether they’d bring in the sort of governance you want…
You’ve also got more illegals now than Army personnel;
“More people have now entered Britain illegally on the small boats than are in the British Army.
While the Army has 108,000 personnel, since 2018 more than 155,000 illegal migrants.”
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1903371081068482735
“more than 155,000 illegal migrants.”
The army some of us have been warning about especially John O’Looney.
I cannot disagree with any of this commentary from Chimirie.
The Labour “patriot” Mr Jonathan Brash MP has at least spoken out but let’s not kid ourselves, this is an arse covering exercise and quite possibly he has been put up to this. We’ll see.
Dishing the Tories.
Do we think there is any connection between the fact this guy represents Hartlepool where Reform and its predecessors have done very well in the past, and the surge in Reform membership and opinion polls.
Surely he is not speaking without regard to his majority, you may say!
Until I learned he was a far left MP I wondered if he was about to jump ship to Reform but I suspect their tolerance of multiple opinions might be stretched too far by this bloke.
I’m sure this is no coincidence. Neither is it a coincidence that Badenoch has suddenly discovered that Net Zero is madness. So Reform are pushing things in a better direction without being in power, a bit like UKIP forcing Cameron’s hand with Brexit. My worry is they will all talk a good fight then not deliver when in power, as the Tories have done. But it’s better than nothing – I hope.
Why do people even discuss these characters anymore you are just feeding the beast. It is obvious that regardless of the outcome of any election the agenda proceeds regardless. This is not difficult to see. If you concern yourself with this nonsense then you have been effectively misdirected and neutralised.
Those who agree with Net Zero but think we are going a bit fast etc are also feeding the beast, there is no shortage of those types on GB News.
They are the most disgusting characters of all the play it safers.
Somehow reminds of 1984 when I were a lad:
Diversity is Conformity
Include is Exclude
Equity is Iniquity
Tory was Labour
Labour is Tory
Reform is…….?
An empty promise?
I’d like to be wrong, but they seem to be now self-imploding.
Yes, I think we have seen peak Reform as the Messiah is being exposed more and more, and more and more local Reform volunteers are chucking it in because while Farage is a good orator he is hopeless at running a party. Runcorn might be an existential test for him having dropped in some flakey woman as candidate and ignored the guy who stood in the seat last year. I wonder what the local volunteers think of it. The Rupert Lowe saga will likely drag on as Farage’s knife in the back has failed this time. Our only hope is that Musk will step up to fund a new party under Lowe that will give ordinary people somebody to vote for.
Well done to Jonathan Brash! And have you seen this latest astonishing news from across the Pond which will be even more effective?
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