170 Extremists Britain's Laws Cannot Expel

170 foreign nationals deemed threats to public safety remain in Britain, undeportable under human rights laws.

The Home Office Equality Impact Assessment discloses that over half of these 170 individuals link to terrorism or extremism. Authorities impose restrictions including electronic tagging, curfews, enforced residence, and online limits. Full deportation eludes successive governments.

This cohort occupies “restricted leave” status indefinitely.

Monitoring demands constant resources. Taxpayers fund round-the-clock surveillance for individuals convicted or suspected of serious crimes. No data emerges on annual costs, but scale suggests millions diverted from frontline policing.

Previous Tory Home Secretaries pledged ECHR reforms to enable removals. Labour’s Shabana Mahmood now echoes the critique, targeting Article 8 family life claims that block expulsions. Yet the 170 tally accumulated under both administrations.

Persistent Across Governments

Numbers trace back years. Failed deportations plagued May’s “hostile environment,” Johnson’s Rwanda plan, and Sunak’s emergency legislation. Labour inherits the backlog but adds no retrospective fix.

Judges consistently prioritize foreign rights over UK security. Article 8 rulings halt removals at the eleventh hour, even for convicted offenders. Strasbourg appeals reinforce this pattern.

Reform proposals surface only post-election. Nigel Farage demands ECHR exit; Robert Jenrick labels borders a “national security emergency.” Ministers like Alex Norris decry past rules as “disgraceful” without admitting shared culpability.

New Border Security Bill promises electronic tracking and single appeals. It tightens asylum shopping and bars national security threats from settlement. Deportations accelerate for some, but the 170 core persists under entrenched human rights constraints.

Public safety bears the cost.

These individuals roam with tags, not behind bars or borders. Over 85 terrorism-linked cases expose vulnerabilities in cities from London to Glasgow. One breach suffices for catastrophe.

Gig economy raids net 171 migrants; asylum hotels drain £15.8 million yearly. Yet high-risk extremists evade priority removal. Policy chases symptoms while roots embed deeper.

Institutional inertia defines the response.

Home Office admits the scale only via buried assessments. No minister resigns over accumulated failures. Officials rotate; threats linger.

Britain once deported foreign criminals routinely. Pre-2000s, human rights challenges rarely prevailed. Now, conventions from 1950-51 dictate terms, overriding parliamentary sovereignty.

This reveals sovereignty’s erosion.

Voters elect governments to secure borders. Instead, foreign courts and treaties dictate occupancy. Labour’s “rapid” removals join Tory pledges in a queue of unfulfilled vows.

Ordinary citizens face heightened risks without recourse. Streets host monitored extremists; deportation waits stretch decades. Human rights frameworks, designed for post-war Europe, now shield threats from host nations.

The pattern endures regardless of party.

Tories legislated against ECHR primacy; Labour governs under it. Both yield to judicial vetoes. Result: 170 undeportables, growing backlogs, frayed security.

Britain’s decline manifests in undefended frontiers. Governments promise control, deliver surveillance states. Public bears indefinite peril while elites debate conventions.