Stop scaremongering and get behind Brexit
he is the victim of a political vendetta. The latest court proceedings were heard at the High Court where Edward Fitzgerald QC, instructed by the human rights law firm Birnberg Peirce, acted on behalf of Deya.
Mr Fitzgerald argued that there was evidence to show the Kenyan authorities were not acting in good faith by continuing to press for extradition and that there was a real risk that prison conditions in Kenya would infringe Deya’s human rights.
But Sir Kenneth Parker dismissed those claims yesterday and refused permission for a judicial review. The Charity Commis- sion has launched an investigation into Gilbert Deya Ministries, which accounts show banked £865,620 in donations in 2014 and has another £1million in savings and £2million in properties.
Last night, a Home Office spokesman said: ‘Arrangements are now being made for Deya’s extradition.
‘The Government has acted to ensure that people challenging extradition are no longer able to abuse the system by endlessly raising last-minute, specious human-rights points which can then be subject to judicial reviews.’
However, it was still unclear last night when he will be sent back to Kenya.
Explaining the delays in the case, sources said Deya had made representations to the previous Home Secretary, Theresa May, which she was ‘obliged’ to consider under the Human Rights Act.
The law has now been amended so that people challenging extradition may no longer make representations to the Home Secretary on human rights grounds. Instead they must be made to the courts.
Deya, who lives in south London, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
A request for a statement was not answered while a ‘pastor’ at a branch of the Gilbert Deya Ministries in Sutton, Surrey, said the fugitive was at a ‘mission’ in Manchester and did not have a mobile phone with him.
THE week began with a baseless, hysterical warning from Remainers that Brexit would put the lives of 10,000 cancer victims at risk. It ended with the BBC interviewing a self-regarding Labour peer, who compared leaving the EU to appeasing Adolf Hitler.
The barrel-scraping scaremongers don’t give up, do they?
This paper thought we had heard it all when David Cameron said Brexit could spark genocide and a third world war, while his Chancellor warned a Leave vote would plunge us into an immediate recession and throw hundreds of thousands out of work. In fact, the unemployment rate fell this week to its lowest since the 1970s.
But this didn’t stop the BBC offering a pulpit to Lord Adonis, from which to preach his distasteful comparison with the Nazi era and claim EU withdrawal will ‘impoverish millions of working people’.
Leave aside why the Corporation should see fit to invite an unelected C-list peer – notable chiefly for introducing tuition fees before demanding their abolition – to vent his contempt for the Leave majority.
If only the likes of Lord Adonis – the very epitome of the European elite – would cast off their blinkers, they might see what is actually happening in the modern world.
Yes, the European dream of peace and harmony was noble. But look what has come of it: Greece in meltdown... Italy convulsed by a never- ending banking crisis... Youth unemployment pandemic throughout southern Europe... A migration crisis unprecedented in peacetime... Parties of the far Left and Right on the rampage...
Now a study by American banks finds the eurozone may be on the brink of collapse – after driving rich and poor countries ever further apart.
True, the UK’s trade with the EU remains hugely important to us – though not so vital as to our partners, who sell more to us than we do to them.
But remember: EU trade makes up less than half our total international commerce, and less than a tenth of the UK economy.
Meanwhile, Europe’s share of global trade has been shrinking for decades, while emerging nations now make up 57 per cent of the global economy. Indeed, wonderful opportunities are waiting to be seized once we take back control from Brussels.
With her Great Repeal Bill this week, Theresa May set Britain on a straightforward and workable path to freedom. If the likes of Lord Adonis seek to sabotage the Bill, they will betray both democracy and our country’s future.