Friday 17 July 2020

"There's one law for the poor..." And it unjustly favours them

Shamima Begum, the jihadi who went to Syria and had her British nationality revoked, has won a second appeal to restore it..... It's a bit rich the Appeal Court judges determining that she needs to be in the UK to argue her case, because thousands of people are turned back at UK borders every year. (Chris Huhne MP said 30,000/year in 2010.) Some are refused entry unjustly,in my opinion. The reason immigration officers take this hard line is because they know that once in the UK the system is wide open for abuse and they will never leave..... For a country obsessed with equality there's a glaring inequality that's overlooked. Legal aid. Shamima Begum of course gets legal aid. Someone with legal aid has a whip hand, as far as litigation is concerned, over someone who doesn't. They can't lose. Legal aid is given for immigration (unlike in the USA). But no one gets it to oppose immigration. I know; I've tried. Legal aid is, of course, taxpayers' money. So we fund our own demographic displacement. What a country! What a mess! What injustice! Why doesn't anyone bend the knee about this?