On that rare occasion that a public figure so deftly summarises just how screwed Britain is, it’s important that we listen and pay attention.
Today, that feat has been achieved with zero self-awareness, intention or sense of irony by Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr. Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill has seen fit to chastise not just the leader of our country, Sir Keir Starmer, but the leader of his democratic opposition, Kemi Badenoch.
The source of her entitled ire is that they dared to discuss yet another travesty of our immigration system in the House of Commons.
At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, February 12, Conservative Party leader Mrs Badenoch questioned why a Gazan family of six were allowed to reside in the UK despite applying through a scheme specifically designed for Ukrainian refugees of Vladimir Putin’s war.
She said it was “completely wrong” that, despite their application being refused, the family had been granted the right to remain here under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Prime Minister replied that he did not agree with the decision in a rare moment of agreement between Labour and the Tories.
But apparently that’s not allowed. Baroness Carr today took it upon herself to haughtily inform reporters that “both question and answer were unacceptable”.
She implied that the Government and Opposition has disrespected and failed to protect the independence of the judiciary and should have raised any disagreements through the appellate process. Which prompts me to ask our readers the question: Can you imagine ever being this arrogant?
That is to say, can you imagine being appointed, not elected, to such an important position and then using this power to verbally slap about two representatives of the ordinary people of Britain?
The lack of self-awareness and ignorance of irony is astounding, especially when this nation’s democratic will as regards immigration is constantly thwarted by legal minds citing the hateful ECHR.
Baroness Carr’s response to our concerns on this matter might as well be a dose of phlegm aimed from the balcony of a castle tower’s turret.
Sadly, this is symptomatic of where we now are as a country. Parliament has ceased to be the highest court in the land in the very country that invented parliamentary democracy. The perception that we are governed by lawyers has its roots in reality.
Britain’s ungrateful children, the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, saw to that. Their dream of a Supreme Court was realised in 2009, its existence a living contradiction of hundreds of years of English history.
If Baroness Carr permits it, I’d like to inform her that not only is the ruling relating to the Gazan family wrong, but that Britain should pull out of the ECHR as soon as humanly possible.
The convention is a blight on this country that stands in direct opposition to our sovereignty, essentially informing an already apathetic public that our elected representatives don’t have the final say. It does.
It’s a tad rich that every five years we’re subjected to narcissistic campaigns urging us to reassure mediocre politicians that they retain some popularity in their constituencies and to be told by preening politicos that not voting means we can’t complain, only to find that some wart has sprung up on our body politic to suffocate any say on immigration we’d hoped to have.
I hope that one day I can have the self-assurance of Baroness Carr, who has proved capable of saying something so utterly contemptible without feeling a fool.
