A seminal event, perhaps as big as the Tolpuddle Martyrs or the Peterloo Massacre (look them up) a year ago changed the political landscape of Britain, with the murder of three little girls by a young man from a Rwandan family in Southport, Greater Liverpool. Violent riots promptly erupted across the UK. Was this is the future the human rights asylum-seeker industry was now promising the people of Britain?
This July, Mattias Guyomar, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, chose the first anniversary of Southport, to deliver a homily in Liverpool, on “Judges as Guardians of Democracy” and their duty to defend pluralism, prevent arbitrariness and protect human rights, blah blah blah. When the ideals of peace and justice were once again being shattered across Europe, he blahed, democracy and respect for human rights more than ever remained the only way forward for humanity.
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