UK will end up like Russia

[WindyNook]

Sunak told in Iceland

UK will end up like Russia if it ignores ECHR obligations, Council of Europe parliamentary leader tells Sunak​

Ben Quinn
Rishi Sunak’s hopes of using this week’s summit in Iceland to pave the way for change to the European court of human rights’ power to block migrant deportation flights from Britain to Rwanda will get a cold reception, a European politician who will meet him there has warned.

Tiny Kox, the Dutch senator who is president of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, told the Guardian that Britain could end up like Russia and face exclusion if it chose to ignore obligations to abide by the Strasbourg-based court.

Sunak, who is in Iceland for the first Council of Europe summit in 15 years, is to call for a reform of the ECHR’s rule 39, which was used to issue last-minute injunctions to ground the flights of migrants to Rwanda last year.

The government has said it is amending the illegal migration bill, which is currently going through parliament, to include a provision allowing the home secretary to ignore rule 39 injunctions.

But Kox told the Guardian:

I think the British government knows there is no opt-out of your European court of human rights, which has been signed and ratified decades ago and which has brought a lot of good things to Britain’s judicial system and the protection of its citizens.
We are not a cafeteria, where you can ask for the verdict of the court that suits you.

Suella Braverman, the home secretary, told a selected group of government-friendly papers during a visit to Rwanda earlier this year that she was “encouraged” by what she said were the UK government’s “constructive” talks with Strasbourg to overhaul court injunctions.

But, echoing the views of legal experts in Britain who have cast doubt on the UK’s claims of “possible reforms”, Kox suggested any move by Britain to back away from the treaty that established the court would “harm” British citizens. He said:

If London decided to leave the convention, it would be in the same situation as the Russian federation, which we had to exclude from our obligation because of its violations of international law.

I think Cruella would be OK with that judging by what she said at the "Trump rally" yesterday.

 

[HolgateCorner]

I think the U.K. is already more like Russia than it would care to admit.

 

[festa5]

You'd have to be astonishingly thick to continue to back these chancers now.

In fact with the likes of Rees-Mogg admitting to incompetent gerrymandering and Sue Ellen's increasingly deranged ramblings I think there's possibly something in the theory that the far right nutjob wing of the party now want to lose the next election so they can use it to trigger a "coup" and complete their take over from the the supposed "moderates".

Bring it on if true, they'll destroy themselves.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

trying to ignore his name

 

[bumface]

trying to ignore his name

I was just about to type something similar.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Outstanding. Holland, the Netherlands whatever, take a F***ing bow. Tiny Cox.

 

[Uwefuchs]

Now that's a man I can relate to

 

[El Guapo]

trying to ignore his name

I just couldn’t - tea out the nose !!!

 

[Borothruandthru]

Maybe it's more of a grower than a shower !

 

[bumface]

Maybe it's more of a grower than a shower !

It's Cox though, right? I have two of them myself, but how many does he have?

 

[Ipad1977]

It looks like the government's plans to export unsuccessful migrants may be a little floppy.

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

I saw his name and suddenly reverted back to my 13 year old self giggling at the human reproduction section of my biology book at school.