Telling The Truth

On the day of the local council elections (Thursday 5/5) Priti Patel took the opportunity to announce the government had deported failed asylum seekers & criminals to Albania.

This is no big deal given that we have a bilateral agreement in place with Albania to enable this very thing. It’s also worth noting she didn’t state how many were on the flight.

Announcements like these are made to push that fallacy that the Tories are tough on immigration. Sadly far too many gullible and naïve people believe it and continue to vote for the very thing they profess to oppose – mass uncontrolled immigration & our country’s surging population density.

Albanian nationals make up the largest number of foreign national offenders in UK prisons, totalling 16%.

Very few Albanians are recorded as crossing The Channel in dinghies. They tend to use more sophisticated smuggling routes run by their countrymen. Multiple large vessels & yachts have been caught smuggling Albanians into the UK on the Norfolk & Suffolk coast. Their preferred method is via lorries and vans.

Several people smuggling operations involving Albanians have been busted by The National Crime Agency.

A real test of the government’s ability to deport foreign criminals will come on 18th May when 50 Jamaicans are scheduled to be expelled from the UK.

In November 2021 a charter flight was booked to deport over 50 Jamaican criminals, some of whom were guilty of crimes such as murder, rape and child sexual offences.

Days before, due to legal challenges, the number was reduced to 33. And on the date of departure, it left with just 4 people on board.

All of those removed from the flight did so by appealing & using Human Rights grounds. Prominent Human Rights law firms are raking in millions from these cases and it’s the Great British public who pays for this via the taxpayer’s purse.

We see groups like Detention Action & Movement For Justice celebrating when deportations are prevented. What about the victims of these criminals? As previously stated some of those they’ve helped keep in our country are child rapists & murderers.

What about the victim’s human rights? What about the human rights of the families who have had relatives murdered at the hands of these foreign nationals?

Until the Human Rights Act is overhauled, loopholes will continue to be exploited which is detrimental to the citizens of this country.

Dominic Raab has said that he plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights. If this were to happen this would release UK courts from having to “take into account” decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. A lot of ECHR rulings & long costly drawn-out appeals are what prevent us from deporting criminals such as the three Pakistanis who were part of the Rochdale grooming gang.

So to summarise even with the new Borders Bill we’ll still struggle to deport illegal immigrants and foreign national criminals until changes are made to the Human Rights Act and our judges don’t have to take European judge’s rulings into account from the ECHR.