An Attack on All Our Rights

 Have you heard about the new piece of legislation, tabled by the Home Secretary, which is “opening the door to a gradual erosion of all our rights and freedoms”? I ask because I received an email this morning from the human rights charity Liberty alerting me to this danger. Apparently, Shabana Mahmood (that strangest and rarest of beasts – a competent Labour Minister) is plotting to put “people’s rights at risk to score political points” and “weaken the European Convention” by making it easier to deport people. And this will apparently constitute an “attack on all our rights”.

The attack in question is coming in the form of the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026, which is due to have its second reading on July 13th. The bill does rather a lot, and bits of it are actually very welcome – it indicates that (my goodness) some thought has gone into what the Government is trying to do in respect of immigration policy. But that’s for another day. Today I want to focus in particular on Liberty’s remarks about the aspects of the bill which deal with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the so-called ‘right to family life’, and what this demonstrates about the, frankly, debased and rather silly way in which human rights advocates think (or, rather, don’t think) about the values they hold dear. This will in turn lead us to the problem lying at the heart of human rights law, which is that it is not really law and, moreover, not even a coherent or sensible concept....<<<Read More>>>...

Is Mahmood’s proposed new immigration scheme the official start of the UN’s “replacement migration”?

 The UN has long advocated for a system of “replacement migration.” The reasoning the UN uses is to replace the populations where birth rates are low with migrants from countries where the birth rates are high.

At the end of June, Shabana Mahmood, the UK Home Secretary, announced a new refugee sponsorship route for refugees. For refugees to enter the UK, they must be referred by the UNHCR.

In other words, the UN is deciding how many refugees enter the UK and from where. Mahmood is outsourcing control of the UK’s borders to the UN. Worse still, her plan appears to be nothing more than a UN “refugee” quota system or, perhaps more accurately, implementation of the UN’s replacement migration scheme....<<<Read More>>>...