In years to come people will look back on this period in our island history and wonder if we had all gone stark raving mad.
I can well imagine classes being taught in the future about the role of chicken nuggets in the fraught relationship between the people of this land and the judges in their ivory towers.
For the record – a serious wrong ‘un of Albanian origin had his asylum claim refused on 14th.Sepotember 2001 but appealed and then withdrew this in March 2002 but was granted Exceptional Leave to Remain in September 2006 and Indefinite Leave to Remain in September 2005 and became a naturalised British citizen on the 6th. December 2007.
He was then sentenced to two years in prison and was caught with £300,000 as proceeds of crime.
Klevis Disha was rightly stripped of his citizenship and ordered to be deported.
Here’s where the madness kicks in.
The criminal Klevis, who had claimed to be from Kosovo (former Yugoslavia) had fathered a son – now ten years old – between crimes here in the UK.
An immigration tribunal then ruled that it would be unduly harsh on the ten-year-old if Dad was sent packing.
The only factor mentioned in the submission was the lads aversion to the sort of chicken nuggets you get in Albania.
God give me strength!
When will Britain wake up? We are going stark raving mad - Stephen Pound
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The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, is rightly appealing the ridiculous decision – watch this space!
It's no use at all blaming the European Convention on Human Rights.
This is all about the insanely out of touch decisions of UK judges and any talk of withdrawing from the ECHR is a distraction.
For the record – when Winston Churchill, along with Francois Mitterrand and Konrad Adenauer among others, drafted the Convention in May 1948 it set a basic standard of decency and human rights that would stand in stark contrast to the Nazi regime that had just been defeated.
The Convention has endured and now 46 of the 48 European countries are signed upon to it.
The only two countries refusing to sign up are the Russian Federation and its servile state partner Belarus.
I, for one, don’t want to make it three out of 48 and see the UK bracketed with Putin and his opposite in Minsk.
If the case of the nasty nuggets was a one off, we could perhaps move on with a weary sigh, but it seems that anything goes when tribunal judges are faced with the chance to sign off on a well merited deportation.
The difficulty of communicating via zoom, recent conversion to Christianity and local attitudes towards gays have all been successfully prayed in aid and deportations halted.
In one recent caser the appellant said – in English – that he did not speak English and needed a specialist interpreter for a language spoken by half a dozen people on the other side of the world.
I shouldn’t be surprised by this – if I have any sympathy at all for the immigration tribunal judges it is that when it comes to trying it on there’s no one in the same class as some of these devious so-and-sos.
Yvette Cooper deserves credit for her persistence.
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I dealt with well over a thousand cases of asylum application during my time in Parliament and, yes, some were completely deserving and legitimate.
A great many were as phony as a five-bob note.
One Afghan gentleman presented me with a photograph of himself and a group of men with General David Petraeus – then commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
This was to support his claim to have been an interpreter with the Americans.
It was an impressive photo but unfortunately for him I had already seen the exact same picture with different heads on the bodies photoshopped in rather inexpertly.
I sent all the evidence to the Home Office and, guess what, heard nothing.
It's about time that we woke up in this country. To her credit Yvette Cooper seems to be very much on the case and I can only hope that the voices of the people can drown out the miserable mewling and wet whinging of those members of the judiciary who not only seem to think that they alone hold the conscience of the nation but that their painfully liberal mindset reflects the priorities of the people.
They may well think in the future that we are all bonkers, but we have an opportunity to prove them wrong and start the deportations now!
