Question; What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Answer; A good start.
I am reminded of the old gag when discovering that lawyers are already planning to derail the will of the people by arguing in the High Court that that the mental health of migrants will be damaged if they are deported to Rwanda.
The whole point of the Government’s Safety of Rwanda Bill (it will receive Royal assent this week) was to shut down systematic legal challenges, which enrich the legal vultures and enrage members of the public who want to stop this flood of migrants.
The numbers coming across the Channel are even worse this year than last. On Sunday 534 crossed over, the highest daily figure this year, taking the total to 6,265, up 28% on last year.
Literally, cities the size of Durham are being created every year and although Rwanda may not be perfect, doing nothing is not an option.
Already lawyers are working out ways in which they can defeat Parliament by launching appeals against the migrants being shipped to Africa.
Under the bill, individuals can continue to bring legal claims against their removal if they can provide compelling evidence that Rwanda is not a safe country for them.
One lawyer told The Times they believed migrants would have a legitimate case based on the potential harm to their mental and physical health. You would have thought they were endangering their physical health by making a 22-mile journey across open seas in a flimsy boat, but apparently that’s okay.
Illegal immigrants choose to put their own lives at risk by crossing the English Channel
ReutersThe whole thing has got completely out of hand, with lawyers making good money out of your money.
Our old friend the European Convention of European Rights will be deployed. The right to family life will be rolled out.
What is appalling is the manner in which the lawyers are licking their lips at the upcoming battles. Who side are they on? The answer is that they are on the side of somebody who pays them. And what is bizarre in these cases is the funder is the taxpayer, the vast majority of whom are hostile to illegal migrants landing on their shore.
It's tricky to work out exactly, but the solicitors appear to be on about £60 an hour for their work. That’s not much for their game, but they choose the migrant clients because, I suspect, many are rampant Lefties.
Even allowing for a fair wind, it’s hard to see any flights for Rwanda taking off until at least the summer. And you can see that it will be in the interest of the lawyers and the migrants to create photo opportunities with fighting and the like at the airports.
If indeed nobody is flown out until say July, then it is only a matter of months before Starmer gets in who has promised the Rwanda flights will be stopped.
And what will Labour’s big idea be? My bet is that it will be some version of an open border.
The nation will be enraged and yet with a massive majority there will be nothing anyone can do about it.
The migrants will be claiming their mental health is being damaged by Rwanda. What about our mental health? What about the nation’s financial health?
Thought I’d finish with another lawyer joke.
Question; What’s the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? Answer; There are skid marks in front of the dog.
I doubt if there will be many skid marks in front of the crossing outside the High Court when these Rwanda hearings start.
