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Jamie, thanks for joining us this morning
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Just give us your reaction to the ruling yesterday. Thank you. Good morning, everybody
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I'm absolutely delighted that the people of Epping have not given up on their peaceful protesting
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but obviously I am devastated. I am gutted for those women, particularly those local mums and those local schoolgirls
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who yesterday were talking to me outside the hotel emotionally because they really thought that next week
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when the children go back to school, that this hotel would be closed and that the people in the hotel would be moved
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And instead, what we now have is parents now talking about having a rota along the pavement
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as to who can supervise young girls going to school. In what sort of country does that have to happen
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You know, this is a seriously bad situation. And I would urge the Home Office, despite the ruling, to empty this hotel immediately
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It is next to a school. What does this government not understand when it comes to the safety of women and girls
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Now, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, had said that the European Court of Human Rights was being used against the people of Epping But in that idea of higher rulings and that the rights of the ETHR came above the rights of local planning
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the high court judges said that that was unattractive to them. So is it right that the European Court of Human Rights is being put against the people of Epping
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Of course it's not. And that's why we need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as soon as possible
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You know, this is Britain. We should only be dictated by our laws that our parliament, our sovereign, so-called sovereign parliament, has legislated
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We should not have the use of foreign courts and foreign statute to even come near decisions that affect such local issues
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And, you know, one thing that we should recognise is Sir Winston Churchill, the former member of Parliament for Epping, was instrumental in the European Convention of Human Rights
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and obviously it had very noble reasons to be founded when it was
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But I bet you Sir Winston Churchill did not ever dream of a day
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that that convention would be used against his own constituents, particularly the safety of women and girls here in his own constituency
