{"id":950,"date":"2005-02-08T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/02\/08\/flaws_in_tories_new_asylum_policy"},"modified":"2005-02-08T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T14:02:10","slug":"flaws_in_tories_new_asylum_policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/02\/08\/flaws_in_tories_new_asylum_policy","title":{"rendered":"Flaws in Tories&#8217; new asylum policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a feature in today&#8217;s Times (London) from a practising barrister outlining the flaws in the Tories&#8217; recently announced immigration policy.  Among them is the fact that the new policy would breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which forbids the return of a refugee to face torture.  The UK could not enter reservations about this article without withdrawing from the European Union altogether, along with the 1984 UN Convention against Torture (promulgated when a Tory government, under Margaret Thatcher, was in power here).  The article by David Pannick concludes that only improved efficiency could solve the UK&#8217;s asylum law problems (and he also mentions resources, &#8220;both financial and personnel&#8221;, which leads to tax, of course), in which there are less votes than in &#8220;ill-informed and unworkable panaceas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,200-1471552,00.html\">What the Tories won&#8217;t tell you about their new asylum policy<\/a> (The Times, p4 Law supplement, today; free registration required)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a feature in today&#8217;s Times (London) from a practising barrister outlining the flaws in the Tories&#8217; recently announced immigration policy. Among them is the fact that the new policy would breach Article&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}