Curious Crow
Professor Tim Wilson
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Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The Northern Ireland ruling today punctures the raft of three laws pushed through for Rwanda" video.
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Only by those rules, including the ECJ acting as Court of Arbitration, being integrated into UK law by Acts of the UK Parliament. On the same legal basis as WTO rules, and the Law of the Sea, things that Brexiteers accept, and rightly so because Parliament is Sovereign within the British Constitution... So what are you complaining about? The ECHR is part of the same body of law where Parliament has granted legitimacy and Jusridiction to extrasupranational bodies and Courts by Acts of Parliament. This gap in understanding that allows the less well-informed to get their knickers in a twist without realising that the ECHR, the ECJ, and every other supranatiinal court is legal under the UK Constitution. So the problem isn't their legality, but the current administration's unerring ability to misrepresent reality, and to make promises they can't keep, and arguably don't really want to either. There's nothing stopping the UK Government, especially as then spend a lot of public money to be in the UN, to start a campaign to update and reform the Refugee Convention. Why haven't they? Instead, we get this pantomime of cruelty and crassness, that just diminishes our standing on the world stage, instead of addressing the problem directly. But having sold their country's honour and security to fill their pockets, they can't fix anything.
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