Think maybe it’s time for May to rock the boat and stir things a little.

Posted 24 Apr 2013 by Walaa Idris

Theresa May

It seems once a month Theresa May tries to legally deport the cleric Abu Qatada, and once a month he appeals and wins to stay in the UK. She then issues a statement explaining what went wrong and promises to not give up on her crusade to send him back. And once a month Yvette Cooper responds with some lame confused middle of the road response insinuating that she and her party could do a better job!

I don’t know about everyone else, but I am tired of hearing about Abu Qatada and his human rights. Sick of May tip toeing around the courts and Cooper pretending she could do a better job, when for years, regarding this hate preacher, all Lab did was look the other way.

Theresa May has so far been a very lucky Home Office Secretary; unlike her predecessors, not much has rocked her post. Despite being the second woman to hold this office, unless she shakes things a little, she risks being forgettable or worst remembered as the one who could not send this nasty dangerous man back home.

So why doesn’t she turn the table around and defy the courts? She already has her assurances from Jordan that Qatada will get a fair trial. Then why not keep her promise to her country? Show she is a no nonsense woman and just put Qatada on a plane out of the UK and back to Jordan? Let him use the law, his human rights and his money to fight his way back into the UK.

The Prime Minster is not alone in feeling frustrated about this case. Abu Qatada and his preferred human rights make the whole country’s “blood boil” with exasperation, by sending him back May might defy a law and tarnish her perfect stint at the Home Office, but she will be remembered as the second British woman to say “No. No. No.”

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David Caldwell

David Caldwell
24 Apr, 13:14

This Abu Qatada farce shows how little right-wingers care for rule of law for people they dislike. If he’s a threat to UK put him on trial!

Theresa May is putting withdrawal from the ECHR on the table? That table must be groaning a bit!

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