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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. Willhoops

    Willhoops Well-Known Member

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    Remove ourselves from the European Human rights court.. the one Churchill helped establish? The one the only two European countries not a part of it are Russia and Belarus?

    ****ing hell people are wanting the U.K. to be a rogue state.

    Wonder what’s in it for the Torys? Being they’d really get to decide what and what won’t make it into law, it’s not as though they have a record of stripping back things in recent times.. say for instance, certain rights to protest and they’re trying to enforce other measures… I mean if that were the case that’d be something that was predicted, including by me, and rejected as project fear… jeez this media swing against the nhs, teachers, etc was way more devious than I thought.

    Just remember when rights go they are way harder to get back. Does anyone really trust Johnson and his merry bunch of idiots with this? Seriously?
     
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  2. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    What's wrong with illegal immigration anyway
     
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  3. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    What would you add/change to the Human Rights Act (1998) other than removing the ECHR as an avenue to defend rights? What rights should ‘illegal’ immigrants have? Other than your hatred of the fact that they are ‘foreign’ (in fact the U.K. has a judge in the ECHR, every member country has one) what are your specific objections to the European Convention of Human Rights which the ECHR upholds?

    Churchill and others, in driving the momentum to establish the Council of Europe, European Convention of Human Rights and ultimately the ECHR, had very clear motivations - they had seen that individual countries (or more accurately governments/politicians) can ignore very basic rights with horrible consequences and wanted a system of shared values and principles across Europe to make these attacks on individual rights more difficult. Obviously a government can withdraw from these agreements and then change (perhaps reduce) human rights protections, membership of the ECHR and convention is just a little brake on the power of politicians.

    The only reason to withdraw would be to reduce the rights of individuals and/or specific groups of people, under the nationalist/populist cloak of ‘sovereignty’.
     
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  4. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    How many illegal immigrants from france do you think the UK should take
     
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  5. Willhoops

    Willhoops Well-Known Member

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    At least another protector of human/workers rights aren’t being attacked/demonised right now, the unions… ohhh actually they are, and people are lapping it up. Absolutely selling out the younger generations.
     
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  6. Willhoops

    Willhoops Well-Known Member

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    loads and those profiteering from selling weapons to certain regimes should pay for it all.
     
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  7. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Great
    More people to buy coffee from
    Pret are loving it
     
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  8. Willhoops

    Willhoops Well-Known Member

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    Great a bunch of Tory donors and associates making shed loads of cash selling weapons to regimes who have questionable human rights records… oh that’s right the U.K. makes up human rights to suit.
     
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  9. bobmid

    bobmid Well-Known Member

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    Johnson truly doesn't give a flying ****, that's plain to see. He signs up to anything does the ****, tells everyone it's brilliant and then looks at what he's signed. Completely ruining this country.
     
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  10. Goldhawk-Road

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    Setting up straw men again, so you can get really angry? I don't hate foreigners, but I resent foreign courts overturning decisions of the courts of this country. Taking the country as a whole, I suspect I'm in the majority in this respect. So this is my difficulty with the ECHR.

    The problem is, it's out of touch with events since it was formed in 1950 and needs reforming. There is a growing diaspora into Western countries from the Third World. It cannot be a human right of every one of those economic migrants moving to live in the UK (which means England, mostly London and the SE, since none of them want to farm sheep in Wales or live in a croft in the Highlands). The Rwanda proposal seems perfectly reasonable so long as the UK maintains its duty of care to each illegal immigrant moved there for a period to enable them to settle. The UK is not the only country facing this problem and acting. Denmark, a small country in size, is also going in this direction. And England is a small country in square mileage compared to France and Germany.

    President Obama deported more illegal immigrants than any other president of the US - 3 million. No doubt you were outraged by this too. I must have missed your post.
     
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  11. rangercol

    rangercol Well-Known Member

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    Nope.
    But you keep on misrepresenting me, it's fun.
     
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  12. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    Would you like chip's with that
     
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  13. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

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    It's exactly what you keep saying.
     
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  14. rangercol

    rangercol Well-Known Member

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    I know, yet you continue doing it.
    Hey ho.
     
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    Isn't the ECHR independent, made up of judges from all across Europe including the UK? I may be totally wrong mind
     
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  16. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

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    Bizarre.
     
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  17. Quite Possibly Raving

    Quite Possibly Raving Well-Known Member

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    Put another way:

     
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  18. Goldhawk-Road

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    It's not part of the EU. Here is the judge pool:

    https://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=court/judges&c

    It amuses me that those that criticise the Rwanda scheme have no remotely viable alternative to the problem of organised crime and illegal immigration
     
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  19. YorkshireHoopster

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    More to the point, isn't the way in to get a job with P& O. I heard there are a lot available to willing foreign workers provide they sign on the dotted line to the world beating Ts and Cs being offered by P&O after firing all who refused to accept levelling down.
     
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  20. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

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    As I've said many times, we should provide safe routes for refugees to get here to apply for asylum.

    Safe Routes Save Futures - Refugee Council

    As I've also said before, we could set up an asylum processing centre in France, so that it's not necessary to cross the Channel to apply.
     
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