Law is flawed
THE exploitation of human rights laws by criminals and their activist lawyers has gone on for too long.
Too often, soft judges have interpreted Article 8 of the European Convention — the right to a family life — to mean that criminals could not be deported if they had a child by a partner in the UK.
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It has resulted in a string of ludicrous cases. One foreign criminal avoided removal, even though their spouse was dead, while another stayed because his son hated foreign chicken nuggets.
Labour says it will introduce legislation to force judges to ignore claims when the law has been “weaponised”. But the existing laws are a mess of the party’s own making — adopted under Tony Blair’s flagship Human Rights Act.
Strangely, the PM wants to take on left-wing lawyers when he’s one himself, while his attorney general Lord Hermer insists on sticking to every European Court of Human Rights ruling.
Have these two got the will to free Britain from the grip of Strasbourg?
We’re not holding our breath.
Cop vet failure
IT is not too much to ask that those tasked with upholding the law don’t fall foul of it themselves.
New figures reveal that 56 officers in our police forces managed to cling on to their jobs last year after being found guilty of gross misconduct.
The public’s confidence in the police has been badly dented over the past few years by blunders which allow bent coppers to slip through the net.
Met armed officer Wayne Couzens had been linked to six incidents of indecent exposure before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, 33.
Astonishingly, ministers have only now brought forward new legislation to make serious offences, such as rape and GBH, count as gross misconduct.
Police forces must impose a more rigorous vetting procedure to ensure officers with criminal records are not pounding the beat.
It’s time to turn Line of Duty task force from TV fiction into a reality.
Jabbering Joe
SLEEPY Joe Biden has kept his head down since leaving the White House.
But he piped up yesterday to urge the world to wake up to the threat posed by Vladimir Putin — and accused President Trump of “modern-day appeasement”.
It is clear that the Russian warmonger has no intention of giving up any territory claimed during his illegal invasion.
Trump’s smearing of the Ukraine regime to force through an unjust “peace” deal is a rant beneath the dignity of his office. Some may find it galling to be lectured by Biden, whose spineless administration refused to give Ukraine the power it needed to win the war.
But as the old proverb says, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.