Greatgreat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 5:42 pm
I get what you mean. Knowledge is power. So if you can please explain what you meant by the post, I am basically tired of this whole matter. All I can think about now is not becoming an overstayed again!
Ok, let's try again.
Each political party in the UK publishes a manifesto. The manifesto says what the party plans to do if they win the election. If you look at the Conservative party manifestos under David Cameron, Boris Johnson, etc, you will see they make promises around the European Court of Human Rights -
Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party toughened its stance on Europe on Friday, announcing a pre-election plan to quit the European Court of Human Rights unless it agrees that Britain’s parliament has the final say over its rulings.
The Human Rights Act (HRA) was introduced by the Labour government in 1998. The HRA is the British version of the ECHR. The lastest manifesto in 2019 simply promised to “update” the HRA -
BORIS Johnson’s Government is planning to ditch human rights laws as part of its withdrawal plan from the European Union.To do so, Tory ministers would either amend the Human Rights Act, or disapply its provisions from new legislation.
If you look at the Immigration Rules, they are made of different appendices. For example, Appendix EU is for the EU Settlement Scheme. Appendix FM implements Article 8 of the ECHR. Article 8 is the right to respect for private and family life. Therefore, Appendix FM is based on family life.
Civil rights groups fear the policy is aimed at severely limiting the scope of legal protections for asylum seekers, victims and other vulnerable groups. Per the Guardian newspaper
Many disputes around the act focus on interpretations of article 8 in the convention, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family life.
If the civil rights groups are correct, the way the Human Rights Act is implemented could change. That means Appendix FM, which is basically Article 8, could change:
For example, last month the ECHR, which considers claims that the convention has been breached, ruled the UK had violated the right to family life of a Nigerian man deported in 2018, one of whose children had a rare congenital heart defect. In that case British courts were criticised for adopting too narrow an interpretation of the protections.
More quotations showing the HRA is under threat
Lammy said: “It is bonkers that the government is prioritising launching an attack on human rights in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
and per Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International UK
Tearing up the Human Rights Act would be a giant leap backwards. It would be the single biggest reduction in rights in the history of the UK...“It took ordinary people a very long time to win these rights and we mustn’t let politicians take them away with the stroke of a pen.