Scum-watch: Our interpretation of the ECHR is selective.
As predicted yesterday:
The Sun is of course right. Only those truly deserving should be protected by the ECHR: soldiers, police officers, tabloid journalists, foreign media chief executives, etc.
Those clearly not deserving are asylum seekers. How dare they demand treatment on OUR national health service?
Typically, the Sun has wilfully misreported the actual ruling. It doesn't just affect failed asylum seekers; it affects all asylum seekers, including those who have been refused refugee status but have no safe passage home so cannot be deported. There's this completely not backed up by evidence statement too:
And the natural comment from the Tory front flat tax backing "Taxpayers'" Alliance too:
We're not you bumptious ignoramus, just for those who have not been refused permission to stay, and those who can't be returned in any case, which amounts to the 11,000 being quoted. How many of those will actually be seriously ill and require costly treatment will be a far smaller number. The greatest shame of this is that it still wouldn't have saved Ama Sumani.
We have grave misgivings, of course, about the European Convention on Human Rights. All too often it leads to putting the rights of terrorists ahead of those of the people of Britain.
The Sun is of course right. Only those truly deserving should be protected by the ECHR: soldiers, police officers, tabloid journalists, foreign media chief executives, etc.
Those clearly not deserving are asylum seekers. How dare they demand treatment on OUR national health service?
ANOTHER High Court decision yesterday is sure to raise the nation’s blood pressure.
A judge decided that 11,000 failed asylum seekers are entitled to free treatment on the National Health.
That’s despite the average waiting list for operations being on the rise. And despite the NHS being under strain with dirty wards and some old folk being underfed by nurses run off their feet.
Those who refuse to go to their home country after being refused asylum here should go somewhere else instead . . .
To the back of the NHS queue.
Typically, the Sun has wilfully misreported the actual ruling. It doesn't just affect failed asylum seekers; it affects all asylum seekers, including those who have been refused refugee status but have no safe passage home so cannot be deported. There's this completely not backed up by evidence statement too:
Many asylum-seekers enter Britain penniless as “health tourists” seeking costly HIV and Aids treatment.
And the natural comment from the Tory front flat tax backing "Taxpayers'" Alliance too:
Mark Wallace, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “We can’t pay for everyone who turns up on our doorstep.”
We're not you bumptious ignoramus, just for those who have not been refused permission to stay, and those who can't be returned in any case, which amounts to the 11,000 being quoted. How many of those will actually be seriously ill and require costly treatment will be a far smaller number. The greatest shame of this is that it still wouldn't have saved Ama Sumani.
Labels: Ama Sumani, asylum seekers, ECHR, human rights act, Scum-watch, Sun-watch
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"Typically, the Sun has wilfully misreported the actual ruling. It doesn't just affect failed asylum seekers; it affects all asylum seekers, including those who have been refused refugee status but have no safe passage home so cannot be deported."
Huh? Aren't you actually saying here that the Sun UNDERplayed this story, as opposed to misreporting it?
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Anonymous |
Monday, April 14, 2008 8:47:00 pm
Well, you could take that interpretation. You can also take the more subtle view that even it realises that denying asylum seekers that haven't yet had a decision made in their cases access to the NHS is completely unreasonable, but that allowing failed asylum seekers access, even if they can't return even if they want to, is an outrage. They're not muddying the waters by giving the reader the option of disagreeing with the taken line.
Posted by
septicisle |
Monday, April 14, 2008 11:25:00 pm
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