The behind-the-scenes negotiations between Monsieur Macron and Sir Keir Starmer about the proposed one-in, one-out migrant scheme is merely the latest piece of evidence that proves the Government doesn't really understand the migrant crisis, thinking closing migrant hotels and moving them into social housing, or granting the overwhelming majority of migrants asylum, would somehow win over the public.
So far, 20,000 migrants have crossed the Channel this year.
The idea that it would be popular to deport all 20,000 back and then take back another 20,000 in exchange is for the birds.
But it isn't happening anyway, as France has said it will only take back 50 people a week.
Jacob Rees Mogg discussed the one in, one out migrant policy
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And now it appears the French President is blaming Sir Keir Starmer for the various pull factors that encourage migrants across the Channel. It seems when it comes to illegal migration, the Prime Minister is all at sea.
The answer, ultimately, comes down to one issue: sovereignty. While we've left the EU, our membership of the European Convention on Human Rights means that we are unable to exercise the repeated democratic mandates to secure our borders and support those who claim illegally.
This question of leaving the ECHR goes far beyond solving the question of illegal migration.
For decades, we've been told that the convention was the great legacy of Churchill. However, Churchill and Attlee never allowed for its jurisdiction to apply in the United Kingdom.
But since the passing of the Human Rights Act in 1997 under Tony Blair, the court has had disastrous implications for self-government.
The court gave and gives itself the authority to follow the bogus principle of the living instrument doctrine.
This is legal jargon for inventing new rights as and when it pleases, without reference to the signatories or indeed to the voters.
Take, for example, Article Eight: the right to family life.
While this was originally intended against the surveillant state, it has now been expanded to apply to immigration and deportation, homosexuality and same-sex unions, the policing of public demonstrations, noise abatement, and eviction for non-payment of rent.
In other words, we are now tied at the hip to a court filled with politically nominated judges hell-bent on the agenda of expanding their power, which is what judges do.
Jacob Rees Mogg said that Labour "doesn't understand"
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And this leaves us without control.
For years, politicians have promised to reform the convention from within, to derogate from it, to tinker at the edges.
But we are at the point now where our ability to self-determine, to make our democracy work, is under fundamental threat, and so we have to leave.
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