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It’s going to get worse.
The Govt have published their response to the consultation on Human Rights Act. The responsible minister is Dominc Raab, for whom it has been a long term aim to weaken people’s access to legal remediation, well for anything actually. Raab wrote, The Assault on Liberty, reviewed in the Independent and the Guardian. In this case, the target is human rights and their 1st target is the right to a private and family life, arguing that honouring this right makes deporting people harder.
While developing the GMB London Region’s evidence to the consultation, I was asked to focus the needs and rights of GMB members as trade unionists and concluded that too much attention was being placed on the relationship between the various institutions and insufficient on what might occur if a sense of impunity were developed in the administrative organs of the State. In the preface, to the evidence, it was stated that,
My concern is that, as a result of the framing of the consultation, too much attention will be applied to the relationship between the government, parliament, the UK Supreme court and the Strasbourg Court, and insufficient attention to the effective transfer of power to Ministers, Councillors and Officials who may behave poorly and with impunity should they feel less likely to have to answer to the UK or…
