Iiona

Sadly your view gives these terrorists the justification to perpetrate the sort of acts that kill and maim innocent people, in whichever country they live. These terrorists ignore the laws that are there to protect us all, and then hide behind those same laws when they are caught! Why does our foreign policy in Bosnia etc. get ignored by people like you and only the so-called negative policies become your justification? Terrorism existed before the current Iraq situation. Migrationwatch is doing what it set out to do, and is, in my opinion, helping us all to understand the influences and impacts of ill-conceived and outdated thinking.

Nick Bentley, Cairo/Reading, Egypt/England

Funny this was not on the BBC?

ibnez, Haggerston, UK

This sounds a very sensible idea but I suspect there will be more chance of Brown reducing the tax burden on middle England and law breakers being punished than what is a common sense approah being implemented.

Stephen Dolan, Rickmansworth,

The Human Rights Act should be amended, or better still scrapped. But there's a much more proactive way to sort out these foreign terrorists who live in Britain. Once they've served their very long sentence they must be removed from this country and at the beginning of their sentence their whole family including relatives must be removed from this country as well. This is the only way to stop these people carrying out their poisoness ideals. If these families and relatives knew that they will lose the lifestyle which they enjoy living in Britain their loyalties will change radically. There should be no appeals, no waste of British tax payers money to line the pockets of solicitors and barristers, just removal to the country from whence they came. No ifs, buts or maybe. No excuses. All their assets or wealth accumulated in Britain should be confiscated to pay for the miscreants board and lodging during his incarceration. Attitudes may then change for the better

Lynda Plum, London, england

Sir Andrew Green is spot on. The ECHR is out of date and no longer 'fit for purpose'. What is particularly alarming is the fact that our judiciary interpret the law in favour of foreign terrorists and criminals instead of giving precedence to the rights of law abiding citizens to live securely in their own country.

The government has been unforgivably lax on border controls and security generally. Yesterday the head of Interpol accused the British government of putting its citizens at risk by failing to check immigrants against a database of suspected terrorists. Gordon Brown's repetition of the mantra 'winning hearts and minds' as the answer to our problems is just evading the real issue. As long this government cannot be bothered to check Interpol's database and as long as we are signed up to the ECHR, terrorists are free to come here and they cannot be removed if they claim to come from certain countries.

Linn, London, United Kingdom

Have you ever tried to get a Court to take the Human Rights Act seriously ?. Well if you have then you will know that it is pretty damn impossible to do so ,expect of course if you are a terrorist who has hijacked a plane to get to the UK (recent case) and then they bend over backwards to cite the Act in making their otherwise illogical decisions. It is the COURTS/JUDGES that need changing not the Human Rights Act which enshrines the very few rights we seems to have left after this Government has been in power.

John, Woking, Surrey

Why is it that we seem to have a problem with the ECHR. Other EU countries manage to cope, without using the threat of terrorism as an excuse to impose Orwellian restrictions on everybody. Why can't we?

But then other EU countries are able to differentiate between the rights of the deserving and those of the downright undeserving. We do the opposite.

or allow extemism to ferment in ghettos created under the misnomer of "multiculturalism."

There is no substitute for good leadership and we've been badly led for a very long time. Let's not keep blaming the EU or EU laws for out own incompetence.

RW, Bognor Regis,

"The Human Rights Act has nothing whatsoever to do with whether terrorists target the United Kingdom" - nor does this article. I believe it refers to terrorists coming to live in this country and the near impossibility of making them leave. Your comment on British foreign policy bears no relevance to this problem. Surely you are not oblivious to the public interest/common sense consideration of removing genuine terrorist threats from our country? Surely it is both just and utilitarian (in the sense of balancing competing interests) to deny those seeking to maim, torture and kill the populace that opportunity?

Eric Cartman, London, UK

Of course Britain's problem in handing control to the
country to the E C on H R has resulted in the country
being ungovernable. It seems obvious the British law
and more particularly England is the only country
that conforms to this legislation ridiculous legislation,
and who do we have to blame. One guess Blair.

Barry Holmes, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Human Rights Act should be amended, or better still scrapped. But there's a much more proactive way to sort out these foreign terrorists who live in Britain. Once they've served their very long sentence they must be removed from this country and at the beginning of their sentence their whole family including relatives must be removed from this country as well. This is the only way to stop these people carrying out their poisoness ideals. If these families and relatives knew that they will lose the lifestyle which they enjoy living in Britain their loyalties will change radically. There should be no appeals, no waste of British tax payers money to line the pockets of solicitors and barristers, just removal to the country from whence they came. No ifs, buts or maybe. No excuses. All their assets or wealth accumulated in Britain should be confiscated to pay for the miscreants board and lodging during his incarceration. Attitudes may then change for the better

Lynda Plum, London, england

Yes, Migrationwatch is right: UK priorities must change to give greater security to UK citizens; groups like 'Liberty' do not speak for the British peopleon this issue.

George, Preston, Lancashire

The Human Rights Act has nothing whatesoever to do with whether terrorists choose to target the United Kingdom. The Act relects reflects the law both across Europe and international law in banning the return of individuals to countries where they may be tortured. Migrationwatch would be wiser to spend its time and resources researching the influence of British foreign policy on the terrorism threat to the UK, but that would be run contrary to its miopic agenda.

Ilona Marchant, London, Uk