'Nigel Farage is dead right - why the hell are we still a member of ECHR?' - Carole Malone

Other countries manage perfectly well protecting the rights of their citizens and keeping their borders secure without the help of interfering foreign courts - Canada, Australia and New Zealand to name just three.

So why can’t we? So surely the question shouldn’t be "Should we leave the ECHR" but “Why the hell are we still a member?"

The whole point of leaving the EU was to take back control of our borders and reinstate our right as a sovereign nation to choose who can and can’t come to live in this great country of ours.

It should be up to OUR elected Government – together with OUR courts and judges - to chuck out foreign criminals who rape, maim and kill innocent people.

But we can’t because apparently, these criminals have a right to a family life here which would be funny if it wasn’t so obscene and so damned dangerous.

It should be the British Government who gets to decide what immigrants are allowed to stay here and what happens to the ones we don’t want. It shouldn’t be the job of the ECHR which itself does not contain any rights to asylum. But we’ll never be able to do that as long as we allow ourselves to be ruled by it and take orders from this meddling institution.

It's like former Tory Minister, Tom Tugendhat, said this week when he threw his hat into the ring to be the next Tory leader: “If institutions do not serve the British people and make it harder to control our borders then we have to exempt ourselves from them or leave their jurisdiction.”

Tugendhat, who before becoming an MP served in Afghanistan and Iraq also said: “The British people wanted control over their lives, their streets, their borders, trade and much more.

"And we (the Tories) lost it.”

Yes, they did and a Labour Party which has been in power just three weeks is fast losing the trust of the British people over immigration. Just look at what it’s done already.

First, Starmer petulantly scrapped the Rwanda scheme – the only viable deterrent we had to stop the boats. Then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the Government was giving asylum and amnesty to between 90,000- 120,000 illegal immigrants who under the Illegal Migration Act are not even eligible to apply for asylum.

Now they will be because Labour is in the process of dismantling that Act. And just days later the scrapping of the Bobby Stockholm was announced.

So Labour has done all that – but still we’ve not heard their plan on stopping the boats.

What’s blindingly obvious now is that there isn’t one. In fact soppy Yvette Cooper has even re-branded the term “illegal immigration” and is now calling it “ irregular migration” which makes it sound not quite as bad, not quite so criminal, not quite so wrong.

If all this doesn’t tell you where this Government is at in controlling illegal immigration nothing will.

Starmer says it's not the case. So why doesn’t Mr Socialist Man of the People put his money where his mouth is and ask the electorate whether they think what he’s currently doing is right?

Give us a referendum on immigration. I’m betting Starmer wouldn’t have the guts to do it because he’d soon realise just how out of touch he and his immigration policies are with the British people.

During the election campaign, the PM said he knew how angry Brits were about the millions of taxpayers cash being spent every day feeding and housing tens of thousands of people who shouldn’t be here.

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But what he’s done these last three weeks has shown he actually doesn’t give a stuff about what we think. This is all about what HE thinks. Starmer’s the man who when he was DPP declared that much of immigration law was racist.

So there you have it – our PM thinks people coming here illegally should be allowed to stay because it's racist to chuck them out. Immigration is without doubt one of the biggest crises facing this country.

Starmer himself even referred to it as a “question of national security.” Maybe Nigel Farage needs to start a campaign for a referendum on immigration in earnest.

He’s the man who forced David Cameron to call one on Brexit. Now his mission needs to be to make Starmer do the same on Immigration. If anyone can do it – Nigel can!