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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Human Rights Act is a gift to our enemies

By Daily Mail Comment PUBLISHED: 00:21 GMT, 8 November 2013 | UPDATED: 00:21 GMT, 8 November 2013

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MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said he was 'sickened' by the idea of having to pay unjustified compensation to terrorists making spurious human rights claims

Yesterday, in a historic first public appearance before a Parliamentary committee, MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said he was sickened by the idea of having to pay unjustified compensation to terrorists making spurious human rights claims. His remarks could hardly have been more timely. For yesterday we also discovered that burka fugitive Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed on-the-run after breaking his anti-terror control order had been given permission by the courts to seek up to 1million in

civil damages for alleged ill treatment at the hands of our security services. The Government insists there is not a shred of credibility to the claim being made by Mohamed, which is being brought under what else? Labours Human Rights Act. And it is surely impossible to trust the word of an Islamist extremist accused of plotting terrorist attacks against the West when he was detained in Somaliland, and who has breached his T-Pim control order an astonishing 20 times. But in a British legal system that so often gives succour to this countrys enemies, Mohamed is still being lavished with legal aid in support of his bid to secure a windfall from taxpayers. Inexplicably, Mohameds compensation claim will be heard in secret whether he has been recaptured or not. But the real affront to justice is that the case is being heard at all. How many more insults must this country suffer before David Cameron is finally convinced of the need to over-rule his Liberal Democrat junior partner and scrap the Human Rights Act in the current Parliament.

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When the Chilcot Inquiry was established in 2009, the public was promised it would finally reveal the unvarnished facts about how Britain came to join the shameful Iraq War. Yet 7.4million later, and almost three years after the last witness gave evidence, the report remains unpublished and there can be no confidence it will see daylight before 2015. Yesterday, it emerged the reason for this unforgivable delay is that Whitehall mandarins are blocking the release of records of pivotal conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush in the run-up to war. Doubtless, Mr Blair, Alastair Campbell and the Labour Party will be gratified if the squalid truth about how they lied their way to a conflict that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people has still not been made public by the next general election. But its a disgrace that senior civil servants have allowed themselves to become embroiled in what smells suspiciously like an Establishment cover-up.

Make welfare work

With depressing predictability, Whitehall has managed to turn Iain Duncan Smiths Universal Credit his visionary policy for ensuring nobody is better off on benefits than in work into yet another IT disaster. With 140million wasted already, the Work and Pensions Secretary urgently needs to get a grip on his department, whose mandarins have long given the impression of wanting to thwart his admirable reform mission. But his critics (including a Labour Party which blew 12billion on the disastrous NHS computer system)

should remember the billions currently being squandered on a broken welfare system that traps families into a life on State handouts. By comparison, isnt the money spent so far on Universal Credit a drop in the ocean?

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