Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the case of Shabir Ahmed shows that the immigration and criminal justice system in the UK is broken.
He said on GB News: “What is going on in this country where we have some vile mass rapist, a criminal of the worst kind, Shabir Ahmed, known revoltingly as the daddy, found guilty of these crimes, sentenced to 22 years in prison, after 14 years let out?
“His citizenship was cancelled as part of his penalty, but he will nonetheless live in this country, not as a citizen, but just as somebody who we cannot get rid of. Why? Because in 1971 when we still had a significant closeness to our imperial past and relationships with the Commonwealth of a different order of magnitude from ones that exist today.
“A law was passed protecting Commonwealth citizens from being removed, but that was not intended to stop mass rapists, villains being removed from this country. It was there to protect an entirely different type of person, and in a circumstance where our relationship with Commonwealth countries was so much closer.
“Instead, a monster remains, and this is part of the whole problem that the immigration system and the crime and law and order system in this country is broken. Thousands, tens of thousands come on to our beaches in boats every year, they’re not removed, we discover that they cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, millions of pounds to keep. I think it’s £17,000 each for an asylum seeker.
“Most of them get given asylum in spite of the fact that they ought to be removed. Most of them remain unemployed, so they don’t contribute to the taxes that pay for the costs that they have built up. A report yesterday said 75% of them remain unemployed.
“Whether it’s crime, whether it’s illegal migration, whether it is an inability to control our borders, that is the problem that we have. And what do we get? We get platitudes, we get questions about nothing being off the table, but we don’t get any action, we get inaction, inertia, and we’ll never get any action until we deal with the problems that stop us doing things, and that is the Human Rights Act, based upon the European Convention on Human Rights and the lunatic European Court of Human Rights.
“We cannot carry on opening up our country to danger, our people to danger, particularly women to danger, because of uncontrolled migration and an inability to deal with criminals. We need, in that famous slogan, to take back control.
“Parliament needs to assert its sovereignty, and people like Shabir Ahmed need to be removed from this country.”
