Rifkind, Blunkett and Straw Give Starmer Cover to Suspend the ECHR

The Court of Appeal’s decision to let the Bell Hotel in Epping continue housing hundreds of so-called “asylum seekers” is not some minor legal footnote, it is a flashing warning light that our rotten Establishment has Britain shackled to a foreign legal regime that undermines our borders, our communities, and our sovereignty. It also sends a clear signal that the government considers the ‘rights’ of illegal aliens as far more important than those of British citizens. It also makes it clear that Britain cannot now reasonably be considered a democracy.

The case was brought by Epping Forest District Council, backed by local residents furious that their town had been turned into an open reception centre for people who, in most cases, have no right whatsoever to be here, some of whom a serious risk to local people. The High Court had granted a temporary injunction, halting the Home Office’s plans to keep using the hotel. That injunction is now gone—overturned by three senior judges, who hid behind narrow procedural points while making it clear that Britain has no control of its borders, with our own government and its tame judiciary is complicit.

To nobody’s surprise there are credible reports that the three judges involved are reliably Left Wing, and almost certainly as woke and globalist as their boss, Attorney General Hermer, with whom the main judge shared chambers at human rights central, Matrix Chambers. He also seems to have been a leading member of The Society of Labour Lawyers and reports indicate that he is, or was, a member of the Fabian Society. The lady judge is reported to be a militant feminist and the third to be virulently anti-Brexit. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that they will have had little sympathy for those demonstrating outside hotels housing illegals.

If you were deluded enough to think this government serious about stopping the boats, think again. In court, the government’s barristers did not argue from a position of strength, sovereignty, or national interest. Instead, they bent the knee to the framework that keeps these hotels running, the so-called “human rights” obligations imposed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). They spoke not of the rights of Epping’s residents to safety, stability, and control over their own town, but of the “rights” of those who have broken our immigration laws. They spoke of “asylum seekers” as if the term was synonymous with “illegal alien,” when in reality it is a legal label that anyone can claim after stepping illegally onto British soil.

These “rights” aren’t British. They aren’t enshrined in Magna Carta or Bill of Rights tradition. They are imported, unconstitutional, supranational obligations, wholly without democratic mandate, that bind us like a ball and chain to Strasbourg’s worldview, which sees independent free nations as a threat, border enforcement as cruelty, racist even, and law-breaking as a mere “irregularity”.

The Epping case was a chance to send a message: we got it wrong, sorry, and we are listening, local communities will no longer be dumping grounds for an immigration system that is has been hijacked by anti-British globalists. Instead, the judges signalled the opposite: that Whitehall will impose migrant hotels wherever it likes, for as long as it likes, without meaningful local consent or even, initially, knowledge.

Epping Forest District Council, forced into action by strong local opinion, was fighting not just for a building, but for the principle that the people who live in a place should have a strong voice in its future. Now that principle has been trashed, replaced by the diktats of globalist bureaucrats dripping with contempt for British patriotism.

But Britain is not taking this lying down and nor should we. Across the country, the Fly the Colours movement has exploded. St George’s Crosses and Union flags are going up in villages, towns, and cities as a statement of defiance. I urge everyone to join in. Make it grow so big that it cannot be ignored. Get your flags, hang them where you can, put them on the back seat of the car, anywhere visible. I recommend Hampshire Flags.

This isn’t about party politics, mostly a lost cause in Britain now – Reform and Advance excepted, we hope. No, it’s about the British people making it plain that we will not accept our country being turned into a soft touch for any Tom, Dick or Ali from third world ratholes, or our towns being commandeered as holiday camps for illegal aliens while our own elderly struggle to get GP appointments, our veterans sleep rough, and our housing list grows longer by the week.

We have seen protests outside hotels from Cornwall to the Highlands, often dismissed as “far right” by a sneering press. But they are made up of mams, dads, pensioners, and veterans, ordinary citizens who simply want the law enforced and their communities protected. And we have support from JD Vance, who also urges us to ‘push back’ against the spreading globalist tyranny.

It’s no good pretending that the “getting tough” on immigration rhetoric is anything other than lies. Even if the government really wanted to do something to stop it, which it doesn’t (it’s too good a camouflage for the astronomically high ‘legal’ immigration they are inflicting on us), while we are still bound by the ECHR there are plenty of mysteriously well-funded human rights lawyers, of whom Starmer, Hermer and Mrs Blair were once prominent, ready to thwart the democratic will of the British people. Every promise to “stop the boats” is a hollow soundbite so long as government lawyers keep citing Strasbourg case law to justify handing out taxpayer-funded hotel rooms to those who have come here illegally.

This is the root of the problem, the crutch that supports this evil system. The ECHR and the Human Rights Act give illegal arrivals a ready-made legal shield our government says, and our judiciary agrees, that our courts are duty-bound to apply. The result is inevitable: deportations never happen, removals never attempted, and hotels fill up.

The government’s “solution” is to process claims faster, but that’s meaningless if the law says you can’t remove people even after you’ve found they don’t qualify. And of course they almost always qualify, even if guilty of serious crimes. Until we legislate to strip out ECHR influence or leave it altogether, Britain will remain a borderless hotel for anyone willing to risk the Channel crossing, most likely to be ferried here by the pointless border force or the rotten RNLI. And the only way we can do that is by a bottom-up revolution that terminates the Uniparty control of our government.

We must all now call for the immediate closure of these hotels and the end of taxpayer funded subsidy of any description, including housing and legal aid for illegal immigrants. The deportation of all illegals should be made mandatory and begin now.  For those that cannot be quickly deported secure reception centres – tent prisons – on remote government land need to be erected, with the speed they built the ‘Nightingale’ medical centres.

We need to make illegal entry an automatic bar to claiming asylum—no ifs, no buts. And we need to make it mandatory that British law is supreme and that we can disregard the ECHR where it blocks deportations or enables hotel sprawl.

The Court of Appeal’s ruling is not just a technical judgement. It is part of a bigger pattern: the slow-motion betrayal in which our courts, our laws, and even our own government’s lawyers side with foreign principles over British sovereignty.

The British public see it. That’s why the flags are going up. That’s why protests are growing. That’s why movements like Fly the Colours are spreading faster than the Establishment can dismiss them. This is the fight of our time: the right of the British people to decide who comes here, on what terms, and for how long. The Court of Appeal might have sided with the government’s ECHR excuses in Epping, but the people of Britain are siding with their country. And they’re not about to back down.

Don’t forget that insidious though it is, and a distinct sign of Establishment intentions, the Three Stooges, sorry Judge’s, treacherous decision overturns only the interim injunction to close the Epping hotel. The final verdict and the full hearing will be heard in October. We must do all we can between now and then to make the government’s life a misery, in the probably forlorn hope that they will listen. More on this later. They will probably not, but all that will do is to further inflame the growing anger of the British people.

This article (ECHR Chains and the Epping Betrayal) was created and published by Free Speech Backlash and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Tom Armstrong