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Nik Love-Gittins

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Nik Love-Gittins

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Here's the property..

November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM

Nik Love-Gittins

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Early Xmas / late birthday present !!
Looks amazing.
Well done @ianmcque.bsky.social and @rossignol.bsky.social

Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol

November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM

Nik Love-Gittins

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I have posted this in the past with reference to the ECHR and it's 'interference' in UK deportations.
It has none. So little that statistically it probably wouldn't register.

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...

October 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM

Nik Love-Gittins

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Didn't this guy say something along those lines too ?

October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM

Nik Love-Gittins

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That took 2 minutes to find. Why can't 'journalists' do that, instead of just parroting Reform's lies ??

ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...

How often does the European Court of Human Rights rule against the UK in removal cases?

The European Court of Human Rights has seldom ruled against the UK government in relation to the removal of people from the UK. Indeed, the Court rarely rules against the UK at all. It issued only one final judgment finding a violation of an ECHR right in a UK case in 2023 and one in 2024. Neither concerned immigration policy or deportation.

Since 1980, there have been 29 UK cases at the Court that have concerned either deportation (enforced removal of a foreign national) or extradition (removal of a person to another country for trial or to serve a sentence).

In 16 of these cases, the Court found that a planned deportation or extradition by the UK government would not breach the Convention and could go ahead. For example, in 2017, the Court held that the UK government’s decision to deport a Nigerian national who had lived in the UK since he was two years old did not violate the Convention: the individual’s long history of offending and the government’s legitimate interest of preventing disorder and crime outweighed the applicant’s Article 8 rights.

In the other 13 cases, the Court found that deportation or extradition by the UK government would violate the Convention and should not go ahead. This means that, on average, judgments of the European Court of Human Rights prevented removal of a foreign national only once every 4.5 years.

Four of these cases concerned the right to family life. For example, in its most recent finding of a violation relating to a UK deportation decision in 2020, the Court ruled that a Nigerian man who had been convicted of falsifying immigration documents could not be deported because it ran counter to the interests of his three young and financially-dependent children, all of whom were British citizens, and one of whom needed heart surgery. The other nine cases concerned deportation or extradition to countries where there was a substantial risk th…

October 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM

Nik Love-Gittins

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You don't need AI, I am here..

October 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM

Nik Love-Gittins

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Is this true ? Do they mean collectively, added up since it started ? I haven’t seen ‘thousands’ of protesters on any news channel.
How is that ‘context’ when it’s disingenuous ?