//…but surely the government advisors and legal mob would have anticipated the legal challenges etc. //
You are a crease sometimes, Tora! :-)
This is window dressing. It’s so as to appear to be doing something about a problem which many people desperately want to see addressed. The problem of “the boat people” is causing enormous stress on public services. One of the reasons cited for the airport disruption is that loads of Border Farce personnel have been shipped down to Dover to deal with the influx. It’s costing £1.3m a day (and rising) to provide accommodation for these people. That’s half a billion quid a year, just to put a roof over their heads. Near to where I live an enormous development is under way to provide over 1,000 “apartments” in a totally unsuitable location and it will cause enormous problems in the area. Well, 600 people pitched up at Dover yesterday so a few days like that and that's the capacity provided by that development gone.
Here's why it won’t work:
// Of course this will be stopped by the HRA pond life briefs no doubt all queuing up already to fight it with tax payers money no doubt.//
The architects of this scheme know it won’t work to any significant degree and they know why. M’Learned Friends will already be licking their lips at the thought of the poor, disposed people arriving at Dover, being met by the Army and led off to holding centres awaiting deportation to Rwanda. They will have their research into conditions there already prepared. The scheme will hit the headlines over Easter, give Ms Patel a bit of street cred for a few days, will fail over the next few months and then be quietly ditched, hopefully at a time when nobody will notice.
//So would they not have changed the law first?//
The law that prevents these actions is our own Human Rights Act. No party has any intention of repealing it or even tinkering with it. In any case that would be futile because, despite our own Act virtually mirroring the European Convention on Human Rights and was designed to stop people going to Strasbourg, they still have the right to do so. Again, no party has any intention of withdrawing the UK’s signature from that convention.
//Perhaps we should ask the Ozzies how they dealt with THEIR human rights lawyers, because they've been deporting illegals immigrants for years.//
The Ozzies would tell you that their Human Rights Act (The Human Rights Commission Act) is nothing like as vague and all-encompassing as ours, They will also tell you that they do not subscribe to the European Convention on Human Rights. .
//Use of the terms bednobs mentioned is to express the dislike or contempt that some people have for the concepts involved.//
Yes they are. I used “Yuman Rights” deliberately in that context.