Another day at Labour conference, another chance for the brightest sparks of the left to descend on Liverpool and make claims spectacularly out of step with the public. Yesterday, one Labour genius declared that Labradors and country pubs are ‘racist’ and ‘far-right’. Mr S also revealed that one PPS is open to spending billions of pounds paying developing countries ‘reparations’ when their citizens come to Britain to work in the NHS.
Today’s dose of fringe fanaticism? Step forward former shadow cabinet minister Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, who has declared that calls to leave the ECHR are ‘xenophobic’ and ‘anti-rule of law’. Chakrabarti told an audience of the Labour faithful:
Essentially, the arguments against (the ECHR) are nationalistic and xenophobic, all this sort of anti-judge, anti-lawyer, anti-rule of law from people who believe in the will of the people and that the climate of today should be a sort of Caesar type person with a direct line to the will of the people and should not be mediated by institutions, whether they’re the judiciary or something else…
‘What I think has happened more recently is, and perhaps as we’ve seen, we currently have two major political parties on the right, with commitments to pull out of the Convention. It’s really Brexit. So, you know, I don’t want to re-litigate Brexit, I know everybody else does, but at this moment I’m not re- litigating Brexit. There are all sorts of reasons why people are waiting for Brexit, some more credible than others. But there was, I believe, a xenophobic aspect to it.
How charming. Responding to the latest ridiculous diatribe against those fed up with European courts keeping illegal migrants, foreign paedophiles and murderers in the country, Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said: ‘This is a nonsense. Right now, the Government cannot stop tens of thousands of illegal migrants entering the country – or deport foreign criminals – because judges following ECHR principles will simply overrule it.
‘Labour reaches for the word “xenophobic” whenever it runs out of arguments, and on the ECHR, it ran out some time ago. Andy Burnham’s party has no answer on how to stop illegal immigration or deport foreign criminals when European human rights laws won’t allow it.’
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