UK needs to have own Bill of Rights

THE latest Government measures to limit migrants into this country, together with a crackdown on illegals’ rights to remain here, has already come under attack from the Labour Shadow Minister Yvette Cooper.

It is ironic that opposition shadow ministers should criticise the Government after they created the open door policy which brought about this crisis.

In order to return our national interests we should withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights and replace it with a UK Bill of Rights, giving Parliament and our courts, the right to deport suspected terrorists, who are using the Human Rights convention as a means to frustrate efforts to have them deported.

The new proposals are to deport them back to their place of origin where they can appeal against the deportation.

Yvette Cooper, during an interview on Sky News, has criticised the Government for not taking a more responsive stance and yet it was during the era of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that the doors to Britain were opened, allowing thousands of immigrants into our country.

Tony Blair signed the country up to the European Court of Human Rights, his wife being a prominent human rights barrister.

Yvette rolled out the same old story that migrants in this country had, over centuries, created wealth and prosperity. While that is true in part, the situation now is that the numbers are vastly different, creating huge pressures on our services.

The expected arrival of migrants from Romania and Bulgaria next year will only exacerbate the pressures that the current system has created and should be prevented as being yet another EU dIrective that will undermine the social and economic structure of this country for ever. Coun George Howe