‘I'm utterly frustrated and fed up about the state of our country its time to leave the ECHR,’ says Matt Goodwin

Our courts seem powerless to actually enforce our asylum rules, with the looming influence of Strasbourg never far from their minds.

Just look at a few recent examples that I've highlighted on X. A Nigerian woman who tried and failed eight times to secure asylum in the UK was finally granted the right to stay after joining a terror group. Just to boost her claim for asylum.

She said that she faced persecution in Nigeria because of her group membership. Is it now the time to finally turn our backs on the European Convention on Human Rights?

Well get this. Another woman from the Caribbean who arrived in Britain and illegally overstayed her visa, has delayed being deported from the country by claiming that her home would be too hot for her new Latvian husband, who would, and I quote, struggle to cope with its tropical cuisine.

I'm not making this up. How about a Pakistani father who was jailed for child sex offences on three and I quote, barely pubescent girls has escaped deportation because it would be unduly harsh on his children and their right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.

I go on, an Albanian criminal has been allowed to stay in the UK, partly because his son get this will not eat foreign chicken nuggets.

The judge allowed the appeal against deportation yet again, citing the European Convention on Human Rights. A woman from Ghana recently won the right to stay in Britain after staging a marriage ceremony in Ghana that neither she nor her husband attended.

Francisca Boateng won her immigration appeal after her union with a German man was deemed to be long enough to allow her to stay in the UK, even though they didn't attend the actual marriage ceremony.

And a Cuban woman, you might have read this in the newspapers, came to the UK on a visa to join her boyfriend, who had already died, despite having two appeals rejected after claiming she deserved indefinite leave to remain as a bereaved partner.

The case rumbles on and the woman remains here in Britain. And look, I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but you really need to know about this.

Just one more truly shocking case for you that dropped today. A paedophile from Zimbabwe will be allowed to stay in Britain because he would face hostility if he was deported back to his home country.

An immigration tribunal judge blocked his deportation by the Home Office because it would breach his rights under article three of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture, inhumane treatment and degrading punishment.

Surely, Britain, I ask, when is enough, enough? How many more foreign affairs will we allow to remain in our country, despite a growing national desire to toughen up, to regain control of the borders, and to put the safety and the security of the British people first?

Who voted for this? I ask, who actually wants this?

It seems increasingly clear to me that the only way we can take back control of our borders is to bite the bullet and walk away from the European Convention on Human Rights, because if we don't, then Europe and foreign courts and international conventions will continue to tell us who we can and cannot kick out of our own country.

I think it's time to genuinely take back control of our borders.