Compared to the UK courts, even the Labour Party is Right-wing.
No, I'm not kidding. Much of that is due to the inherent leftism that now pervades the legal profession, and much has to do with the idiocy of the European human rights laws to which the UK has bound itself.
None of these people speak English but yes they'll all likely get jobs and all the children will easily integrate because they have the "capacity to learn" pic.twitter.com/tD5LPxLvMY
— max tempers (@maxtempers) July 16, 2026
We've all seen the stories of judges denying the deportation of vicious criminals because their return to their home country puts them "at risk." A man convicted of rape, once he has served his sentence, is eligible for deportation, but a judge worries that rapists are not well-regarded in his home country.
He gets to stay.
Or, in this case, the Labour government denied entry to a Gazan family of 18 because their entry was found to be "detrimental" to the public interest—a judgment with which the Court agreed—but they were given entry because they otherwise would be worse off.
What percentage of the world fits that definition?
A family of 18 from Gaza has won the right to come to Britain after launching a human rights challenge in the British courts.
The landmark case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three - who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen – was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.
Her relatives – both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children – won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood then attempted to have that decision overturned – but this week lost the case.
The case exposes yet again how human rights laws undermine Britain's border controls by overturning decisions made by the Home Secretary.
The Conservatives said the 'shameful' ruling risked 'opening the floodgates to thousands of Palestinians claiming asylum here due to Labour's pitiful adherence to flawed human rights laws'.
The Home Office refused permission for the Palestinians' application to come to Britain under refugee family reunification rules.
Their original application was lodged in late November 2023, about a month after Israeli forces entered Gaza in the wake of Hamas' October 7 surprise attacks which killed nearly 1,200 people.
Hey, we've got it good here in England. Let's redistribute quality of life by letting in third-worlders, giving them benefits and housing, and equalizing the misery!
The case sprang up because one member of the family had acquired legal residence in the UK, and she wanted to sponsor 18 family members to follow her after the war in Gaza broke out. The application was denied, although her parents were granted permission to join her, provided she promised to provide for them.
They sued and won. With that one toe inside the door—a family member was allowed in—half a village gets to follow. It would cause "distress" if anyone were left out, even though the judge found they would be a massive burden on the community.
Even Keir Starmer thought that was nuts, which tells you something.
It follows a case which emerged last year of another Gazan family winning a similar legal challenge, initially using a scheme designed for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, which PM Sir Keir Starmer said he opposed.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch raised the earlier case during Prime Minister's Questions last February, saying it was 'completely wrong'.
In response Sir Keir said he agreed, adding that 'it should be Parliament that makes the rules on immigration'.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said of the latest case: 'This risks opening the floodgates to thousands of Palestinians claiming asylum here, which Keir Starmer has already said he opposes, due to Labour's pitiful adherence to flawed human rights laws.
'Why should immigrants be allowed to ship in their entire extended family to the UK?
'The Home Secretary must urgently appeal this shameful decision to a higher court.
'We cannot have open borders with huge numbers of migrants exploiting human rights laws to come here or stay here.
'This is yet more evidence why the immigration tribunal must be abolished and why we must leave the ECHR.'
Building a legal system on compassion, not rules, is a recipe for disaster. In almost any circumstance, you can find a reason why the person being judged would be better off if the rules aren't applied, and if you are indifferent to the good of the community, you wind up destroying it.
We see exactly that line of thought pervading liberal governance here as well. It is Tim Walz's reasoning for why an immigrant who raped his niece for years shouldn't have been deported. He mobilized the state government apparatus, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, and himself, to pardon a rapist to prevent his deportation, and is now outraged that this sexual predator was stripped of his Green Card and expelled.
.@GovTimWalz on why ICE shouldn’t have deported this child rapist: “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 15, 2026
For Tou Lue Vang this wasn’t just one “worst day” — it was YEARS of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl starting when she was 10.
Just disgraceful. https://t.co/QCzSnYh4zA pic.twitter.com/hJ2TRlan4k
That man raped a 10-year-old for two years, regularly. He said it was part of his culture. So he should stay because otherwise he is such a nice guy.
Either this bearded male Nazi is actually a woman, or no male is a woman.
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) July 16, 2026
Turns out those are your only two options. There is no middle way. Every elected Democrat believes there to be a middle way.
Alas, there is not. https://t.co/i6MtWlMsRo
Or how about the insane choices that are now being made to put men into women's prisons to cater to their "mental health," even giving them transgender surgeries? We put sex offenders and pedophiles into women's prisons not to hurt their feelings.
Sure, this guy is a Nazi, but he also claims gender dysphoria, so let's sic him on women in prison. Don't want to hurt HIS feelings.
Or how about hiding crime statistics? Can't let people know that "South Asians" are often criminal sex offenders! It might cause racism and Islamophobia, so we will bury the reality.
To see my letter to him: pic.twitter.com/GJ0KJS5yNR
— Nick Timothy MP (@NJ_Timothy) July 15, 2026
We KNOW, beyond doubt, that doing these things is harmful, and do them anyway because it would be "mean" not to.
Reality can be mean. Some people are bad seeds; even if they aren't, their presence can be too costly for others, who also deserve consideration. I really don't care whether a Nazi feels bad in prison. He's supposed to.
Compassion is a fine impulse, even necessary, but it is not the only fine impulse. So is the pursuit of justice, social concord, economic growth, common values, and a sense of shared identity and fairness.
Obviously, any decent society will work to uphold human rights, but it can't be responsible for the human rights of every person in the world. That is ruinous.
When even Keir Starmer thinks you have taken it too far, you most certainly have.
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