Nearly 12,000 foreign criminals are currently being handled by the Home Office, including 775 murderers and 587 rapists – but the true figure of Britain’s foreign criminal population is potentially much higher, as the official figures don’t include convicted criminals who have been granted the right to stay in the UK permanently under human rights laws.
The Home Office has for the first time released figures of all foreign
criminals on its books, broken down by nationality and category of crime. They
reveal that 11,719 foreign criminals are either in jail, in immigration
detention centres or at large. In total, 177 nations are represented on the
list, entitled the Foreign National Offender Caseload, the Daily Mail has reported.
The trouble here is that the 'usual suspects' of the left claim that to rid ourselves of this burden 'rids us of our human rights'. This is manifestly untrue as pre-ECHR/HRA we had a legal system which was the envy of the world and was copied by dozens of nations as a template for justice and quality. Consequently, the europhile arguments are disingenuous in the extreme. They might have had a case if it had actually made imoprovements - but it DID NOT DO SO and at the same time took away our rights as a nation to exert control over our own laws. Once again, the silly Euro idea of 'one size fits all' had come into play!
The trouble here is that the 'usual suspects' of the left claim that to rid ourselves of this burden 'rids us of our human rights'. This is manifestly untrue as pre-ECHR/HRA we had a legal system which was the envy of the world and was copied by dozens of nations as a template for justice and quality. Consequently, the europhile arguments are disingenuous in the extreme. They might have had a case if it had actually made imoprovements - but it DID NOT DO SO and at the same time took away our rights as a nation to exert control over our own laws. Once again, the silly Euro idea of 'one size fits all' had come into play!
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