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<div class="body "><p>The threat? – echoed in the Commons by the Home Secretary, Theresa May – provoked a backlash from the Conservatives’ Liberal Democrat coalition partners and the Tory minister Kenneth Clarke.</p><p>There is no realistic prospect of withdrawal while the Coalition is in office because of fierce Liberal Democrat resistance to the idea,lululemon canada, but the Conservative move appeared aimed at reassuring party loyalists ahead of next Thursday’s local election contests.</p><p>The possibility of pulling out of the convention was discussed by Mr Cameron, Mrs May, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and the Attorney-General Dominic Grieve,One last mystery for Stephen Hawking women - Home News - UK - The Independent, Downing Street confirmed. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “We are going to explore every option.”</p><p>In a statement to MPs, Mrs May said: “We should have all options,Celtic 4 St Johnstone 0 match report Neil Lennon l, including leaving the convention altogether,hollister outlet, on the table. The Prime Minister is looking at all the options. That is the only sensible thing to do.”</p><p>The Home Secretary announced the British and Jordanian governments had signed a new treaty guaranteeing Abu Qatada would not face trial in Jordan on evidence obtained by torture. She said the step would “finally make possible” the cleric’s removal, although she made clear it could still take months to remove him from Britain.</p><p>The preacher, once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe,hollister, has been fighting a legal battle against his deportation for almost a decade.</p><p>Conservative ministers have attacked judges at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which interprets the convention, for thwarting attempts to expel him. Labour has blamed Home Office mistakes and misjudgements for the impasse.</p><p>A Liberal Democrat source said: “We support the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act. No proposal has been put to us,lululemon outlet canada. We are not withdrawing from the convention,lululemon outlet.”</p><p>Mr Clarke, a minister without portfolio, who has previously clashed with Mrs May over human rights, said the Government had no plans to withdraw from the court’s jurisdiction. He told BBC Radio 4: “I’m not aware that we are actively looking at that.”</p><p>Benjamin Ward of Human Rights Watch said: “It’s extraordinary that the Home Secretary is contemplating leaving a major human rights treaty that Britain helped create just to make it easy to deport an undesirable person. If the Government is serious about upholding the rule of law,Anthony Rose 'When it comes to matters of taste its a false econ, it should gather the evidence to prosecute Abu Qatada here in Britain, where he can get a fair trial.”</p><p>The Government suffered a fresh blow this week to its efforts to expel Abu Qatada when the Court of Appeal refused permission for the Home Secretary to take the fight to the Supreme Court. Mrs May said the Home Office would now appeal directly to the Supreme Court for permission to appeal. In the meantime, she has signed a “legal assistance agreement” with Jordan, in order to launch a fresh deportation bid.</p><p><strong>Convention Q&,lululemon;A</strong></p><p><strong>How would temporary withdrawal work?</strong></p><p>Article 15 of the Convention allows countries to pull out in time of “war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation” as long as the move is “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation”,lululemon canada. </p><p><strong>Would temporary withdrawal guarantee Qatada’s deportation,hollister?</strong></p><p>This is far from clear. British courts could block the preacher’s removal on the grounds it fell foul of the United Nations convention against torture. The European Convention also makes clear that withdrawal is not allowed if it leads to people suffering torture.</p><p><strong>Has the step happened before?</strong></p><p>Edward Heath’s government used it during internment in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s,hollister outlet, while Tony Blair considered and rejected the idea after the September 11 attacks to deport suspected terrorists.</p><p><strong>What could happen if the UK simply ignored the Court?</strong></p><p>It could order Britain to bring Qatada back from Jordan and pay him compensation. It could also mean other countries not observing their obligations to Britain under international law.</p><p><strong>How serious is the prospect of the Tories suggesting permanent withdrawal,hollister outlet uk?</strong></p><p>Very serious. It is now emerging as potential commitment in the party’s next general election manifesto.</p><p>Nigel Morris</p></div> | <div class="body "><p>The threat? – echoed in the Commons by the Home Secretary, Theresa May – provoked a backlash from the Conservatives’ Liberal Democrat coalition partners and the Tory minister Kenneth Clarke.</p><p>There is no realistic prospect of withdrawal while the Coalition is in office because of fierce Liberal Democrat resistance to the idea,lululemon canada, but the Conservative move appeared aimed at reassuring party loyalists ahead of next Thursday’s local election contests.</p><p>The possibility of pulling out of the convention was discussed by Mr Cameron, Mrs May, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and the Attorney-General Dominic Grieve,One last mystery for Stephen Hawking women - Home News - UK - The Independent, Downing Street confirmed. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “We are going to explore every option.”</p><p>In a statement to MPs, Mrs May said: “We should have all options,Celtic 4 St Johnstone 0 match report Neil Lennon l, including leaving the convention altogether,hollister outlet, on the table. The Prime Minister is looking at all the options. That is the only sensible thing to do.”</p><p>The Home Secretary announced the British and Jordanian governments had signed a new treaty guaranteeing Abu Qatada would not face trial in Jordan on evidence obtained by torture. She said the step would “finally make possible” the cleric’s removal, although she made clear it could still take months to remove him from Britain.</p><p>The preacher, once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe,hollister, has been fighting a legal battle against his deportation for almost a decade.</p><p>Conservative ministers have attacked judges at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights, which interprets the convention, for thwarting attempts to expel him. Labour has blamed Home Office mistakes and misjudgements for the impasse.</p><p>A Liberal Democrat source said: “We support the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act. No proposal has been put to us,lululemon outlet canada. We are not withdrawing from the convention,lululemon outlet.”</p><p>Mr Clarke, a minister without portfolio, who has previously clashed with Mrs May over human rights, said the Government had no plans to withdraw from the court’s jurisdiction. He told BBC Radio 4: “I’m not aware that we are actively looking at that.”</p><p>Benjamin Ward of Human Rights Watch said: “It’s extraordinary that the Home Secretary is contemplating leaving a major human rights treaty that Britain helped create just to make it easy to deport an undesirable person. If the Government is serious about upholding the rule of law,Anthony Rose 'When it comes to matters of taste its a false econ, it should gather the evidence to prosecute Abu Qatada here in Britain, where he can get a fair trial.”</p><p>The Government suffered a fresh blow this week to its efforts to expel Abu Qatada when the Court of Appeal refused permission for the Home Secretary to take the fight to the Supreme Court. Mrs May said the Home Office would now appeal directly to the Supreme Court for permission to appeal. In the meantime, she has signed a “legal assistance agreement” with Jordan, in order to launch a fresh deportation bid.</p><p><strong>Convention Q&,lululemon;A</strong></p><p><strong>How would temporary withdrawal work?</strong></p><p>Article 15 of the Convention allows countries to pull out in time of “war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation” as long as the move is “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation”,lululemon canada. </p><p><strong>Would temporary withdrawal guarantee Qatada’s deportation,hollister?</strong></p><p>This is far from clear. British courts could block the preacher’s removal on the grounds it fell foul of the United Nations convention against torture. The European Convention also makes clear that withdrawal is not allowed if it leads to people suffering torture.</p><p><strong>Has the step happened before?</strong></p><p>Edward Heath’s government used it during internment in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s,hollister outlet, while Tony Blair considered and rejected the idea after the September 11 attacks to deport suspected terrorists.</p><p><strong>What could happen if the UK simply ignored the Court?</strong></p><p>It could order Britain to bring Qatada back from Jordan and pay him compensation. It could also mean other countries not observing their obligations to Britain under international law.</p><p><strong>How serious is the prospect of the Tories suggesting permanent withdrawal,hollister outlet uk?</strong></p><p>Very serious. It is now emerging as potential commitment in the party’s next general election manifesto.</p><p>Nigel Morris</p></div> | ||
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| + | <div id="article-content" property="dc:description"> <p>Yesterday I tuned in to the Radio Scotland phone-in while driving to work. A modest observation from Scottish Prison Service chief executive Colin McConnell that prisoners treated with respect and decency are more likely to treat others that way, had brought out the "hang 'em and flog 'em" lobby in force. Callers were blithely calling prisons holiday camps,One giant leap for China's space programme -, despite never having set foot in one of these sad, tense, grim places. After one lady explained that prisoners deserved nothing "because they aren't like us",lululemon outlet, I decided to change stations.</p><noscript><p>Big mistake. On Five Live, Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke was explaining why claimants should receive their benefits on a welfare cash card that could be used only to buy "essential items". "Ned things", like alcohol, cigarettes,Minsk - latest news, breaking stories and comment,hollister, gambling and Sky TV packages,hollister, which "hard-working families" have had to cut back on,hollister outlet, would be taboo.</p><p>The burly backbencher has no chance of getting his 10-minute rule bill on to the statute book,lululemon canada,We must save Gaelic before it's too late Herald Scotland, but it provides an interesting insight into the mindset of a large tranche of the Tory party. Mr Shelbrooke,hollister clothing, who is clearly a stranger to hardship himself,hollister sale, trots out all the mythology we're used to hearing from Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith about benefits incentivising sloth, workless households living the high life and three generations of families that have never paid a penny of National Insurance. (For six months the Joseph Rowntree Foundation unsuccessfully scoured Glasgow for a single family in this category.) Of course, the system contains feckless, idle scroungers, but study after study demonstrate that they are a tiny minority. </p><p>No matter. This item brought out the rottweilers among the Five Live audience. At one point a man called Harvey was subjecting us all to a ferocious fortissimo shockjock-style rant about "useless filth spending my taxes" that left studio guest (The Spectator's James Delingpole) looking like a dangerous leftie. Mr Delingpole supported the cash card idea on the basis that public spending in the UK is now nearly £700bn a year. (He omitted to mention that Jobseeker's Allowance accounts for less than £5bn of this, compared with £74bn for state pensions, £56bn for education and £38bn for defence.)</p><p>Previous recessions have brought out the best in us. The recent death of the last Jarrow marcher reminds us of both the poverty suffered by the unemployed in the 1930s and the kindness shown to them on their 300-mile march to London. Naively,lululemon outlet canada, I imagined that as more and more of us experienced redundancy among friends and family, uncharitable public attitudes to such misfortune would change. Instead, we seem to be becoming ever more narrow-minded and hard-hearted. British Social Attitude surveys seem to bear this out,hollister uk, with support for policies that redistribute wealth and opportunity evaporating.</p><p>This is partly the fault of the left. Labour has been too timid about challenging the mythology of skivers and strivers. The online argument against Mr Shelbrooke's cash cards yesterday focused on practical objections: that the technologically incompetent DWP would leave families penniless; that drug addicts and alcoholics would barter or steal; that the system would exclude market stalls,hollister uk, charity shops, jumble sales and eBay, which claimants rely on for bargains. </p><p>In a world of celebrity culture and manipulative advertising, where we mould our thinking around our social identity, rejecting information that conflicts with our values, such arguments are simply batted away. Thus we lose our ability to understand and share the feelings of others. That's how we have been softened up for Mr Duncan Smith's speech on child poverty today that will argue that poverty is less about money than academic failure, welfare dependency, poor parenting and crime. When will we stop blaming poverty on the poor and stand up for policies that are kind and empathetic, rather than cruel and selfish?</p></noscript> </div> | ||
