Rule Britannia or not?

The government are considering totally legal ways of bypassing the obfuscation of the original intent of "human rights law" by well funded barristers and judges with zero regard to the cost to our country by their shenanigans :

Britain is preparing to opt out of major parts of European human rights laws, risking an explosive new row with the EU.

Boris Johnson's aides and ministers are drawing up proposals to severely curb the use of human rights laws in areas in which judges have "overreached".

The plans under discussion include opt-outs from the Human Rights Act, which could prevent many migrants and asylum seekers from using the legislation to avoid deportation and protect British soldiers against claims relating to overseas operations. The Act allows British courts to apply the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The move sets up a major new confrontation with the EU, which has been demanding that the UK commits to remaining signed up to the ECHR and keep the Human Rights Act in place as the price of future "law enforcement co-operation" between the bloc and Britain.

None of which makes little difference except maybe help in sending them back but not sure to where as under International law we cant send them back to France and without their passports which country do we try and deport them to?

The United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea covers the migrants crossing the sea and what happens once they are in our territorial waters. Nothing to do with the EU btw.

Or are you supposing we withdraw from UNCLS as well?
 
I'd love to see us withdraw from the UN, they're a waste of time and money, another huge, and when push comes to shove, toothless bureaucratic quango.

So you are happy that if a British vessel is ever in trouble at sea in the future that no other vessels come to their aid? I am amazed at the price you are prepared to pay just to keep a few migrants out.
 
So you are happy that if a British vessel is ever in trouble at sea in the future that no other vessels come to their aid? I am amazed at the price you are prepared to pay just to keep a few migrants out.

Indeed. "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" seems to sum up the last four years. Wave the Union Jack, sing Rule Brittania! and everything will be OK.
 
Im sure that the law of the sea has something to say about setting out on a voyage in dangerous vessels with no proper safety considerations made.

The people who should be sanctioned are those procuring boats and engines at great expense and risk to life of the putative refugees.

I do mean sanctioned in a special forces kind of way as well.
 
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In international waters there aren't many laws though. Unless you plan on being a pirate :p

People can get in any old boat and just go. If they drown then it's their own stupid fault. Someone might try to rescue you if you can get a message out, but they don't have to if it's too dangerous for themselves.
 
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