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Shamina Begum Back In The UK.

MichaelC said:
Listening to LBC this morning, on the subject of Shamina Begum, one of the callers was a former high ranking police officer who had previously had access to security files on her. The information is not within the public domain. Paraphrasing him, the information suggests Shamina Begum is not quite what she has sought to portray herself whilst in Syria…
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And that will be what her lawyers are leveraging off of.

To win the 'passport argument', we're seeing a scripted dress change and interviews to show the attitude change to 'sell' her story she's not the radicalised, jihadist bride anymore. And there'll be no hard evidence to the contrary in the public domain.
 
^1 exactly that @sq225917 ;
from the article linked by @farfromthesun:

exempts the government from having to give notice if it is not “reasonably practicable” to do so, or in the interests of national security, diplomatic relations or otherwise in the public interest.​

There is no due process; the omission of Judicial review opens the door to utter abuse: You said something We don't like - you are now stateless, go grovel elsewhere.

"To none will we sell, to none delay, Right nor Justice" magna carta 1215: anyone remember that, you know, the cornerstone of what was the UK's general impression of civilisation, and 805years + of legal precedent.

Off to amazon to buy a pitchfork...


Edited to clarify as a response to sq's post:9.15pm
 
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I noticed Patel has been doing all she possibly can to conflate refugees with terrorism trying to milk every last drop out of the Liverpool taxi bomb incident and cash it in as authoritarianism. I guess this was her game.
 
You don’t expect to like Home Secretaries but she is frightening. I was reassured when the border force. after sending members to learn to become jet ski Ninjas, refused to use them.
 
Tony L said:
I noticed Patel has been doing all she possibly can to conflate refugees with terrorism trying to milk every last drop out of the Liverpool taxi bomb incident and cash it in as authoritarianism. I guess this was her game.
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There'd be no game if that prat hadn't turned up to a hospital with the intent of deconstructing himself and countless others. She's lapping it up.
 
myles said:
There'd be no game if that prat hadn't turned up to a hospital with the intent of deconstructing himself and countless others. She's lapping it up.
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Indeed, but you have to factor a tiny trace element of terrorists, be they religious, far-right, or both, and not allow authoritarian hard-right-wing governments like Johnson’s to throw our whole legal structure out on what is in effect less than a rounding error of risk. That our home secretary can potentially remove arguably the most basic human right from absolutely everyone in the country due to some utter dickhead killing himself and no one else in a taxi is just beyond belief. It is a government politically hijacking a potentially tragic event in order to make yet another huge land-grab against our human rights and civil liberties.

PS As ever: Good Law Project, Amnesty International etc. These are our only defences at present.
 
@stevied - Isn't that something; remember when (even!) that rather deeply unpleasant person Ann Widdecombe called-out Micheal Howard, Tory leader in 1997, as having 'Something of the Night about him'. We giggled and agreed - rather than perhaps all seeing it as a pointer to a deperately-bleak future.

Yet under 25yrs later - look at legal-Alien vs. Predator, the sequel. Utterly horrific; an inhumane and total failure of the UK political system.


(PS after my earlier posts above - turns-out you might find really good pitchforks on amazon!

Black Friday for show - pitchforks for a pro...)
 
Really Shamina should go to the Netherlands to be with her husband and so that should be the UK argument, family life etc.

Maybe Verstappen could look after them??
 
I hate to link to Dunt but this is exactly right on the Borders Bill and it's exactly the point of the Begum show: to create a racialised, two-tier citizenship.

'Making someone stateless has long been seen as one of the most egregious actions a government can take. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the great scholar of totalitarianism, it deprives people of “the right to have rights”. It makes you an unperson: without protection, without home, without legal status...

The Government has created a second-tier category of British citizenship, which applies predominantly to ethnic minorities. And it has chiseled away at its legal protections so that it can take away that citizenship at any time, without notification, on vague conditions, and with almost no legal redress.'

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-p...rity-brits-into-second-class-citizens-1339611
 
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