"The Human Rights Act needs to go, to restore sanity to the immigration system"

Posted 5 Oct 2011 by Walaa Idris

Those were Theresa May’s words that electrified the Conference and Conservatives across the land – until Maya the cat became the story and took centre stage and changed the tone and mood of the conference from a mellow, eventless gathering to excitement!

What transpired after that was shocking to some but not to me. The whole catgate business was neither here nor there as far as I was concerned!

Especially as we, now, know there was a Bolivian student, his girlfriend, their cat ‘Maya’, his immigration status and a court case. And although, the court, did not technically cite Maya the cat as a reason for the student to be granted stay in the UK, it was used as prove of his long residency and settlement in the country – the cat was mentioned solely to prove the ‘family’ the couple had together existed!

For those who think that’s absurd. I argue; why mention the cat in the first place if it had no relevance to the court case? That’s why lawyers love reasonable doubt.

As I mentioned before, catgate with all its excitement, the possibility that the Home Secretary (who by the way recently also misplaced her personal appointments book) needs to maybe pay more attention – after all it is the Home Office, a very serious department, but also the Black hole of many great careers….., all of that did not shock me one bit but what Ken Clarke said did!

For the Justice Secretary to publicly question the Home Secretary’s claims and to go as far as daring her…., that was a surprise!

On the up side it gave the media and many others something to get excited about!

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