Well done the Dutch......

Well, two things.

1) Force Majeure is "an act of god" that no party can be held accountable for.

2) Having enough support to carry a majority is EXACTLY how Democracy works.

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That's only one definition.  Another one is "irresistible compulsion or superior strength."  Which is the one I am using in this context.

Like being outvoted you mean?

Is that how you see being outvoted in a democracy?

For the benefit of any poster who may not understand, the ECHR ( European Convention of Human Rights ) has little to do with the European Union, but is a convention of The European Council, separate to the EU.

Whenever you actually get down to the "nitty gritty" or the "bottom line" with any of the paragraphs of the Convention, it all makes good sense, and was carefully thought out to provide water tight protections to our rights.

The criteria for what is, and what is not a "Safe Country" when it comes Justice, imprisonment and fair treatment all makes perfectly good sense.

In the past we have not been able to send Islamist terror suspects to Saudi Arabia, because the ECHR stipulates that a criminal suspect could be tortured in Saudi Arabia, and to me it makes good sense, not only for Islamist terror suspects, but it could one day be a British man suspected of consuming alcohol, or of a female not covering herself up.

Because of the ECHR, we would not be able to do what the Americans did ... lock suspects up without trial indefinately as in Guantanamo Bay, and rightly so.

Because of the ECHR, we are all protected, none of us can be deported or extradited to North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia or anywhere deemed to have a dodgy justice system, or where people can be tortured.

Because of the ECHR a woman cannot be sent to Afghanistan or Iran for breaking so called "modesty rules"

Because of the ECHR no gay man can be extradited to Uganda for a crime 

The ECHR is the worlds Benchmark, and thankfully there is little or no prospect of the UK opting out of the ECHR, of which we were instrumental in setting up in the first place.

As the French would say  "Liberty - Equality - Fraternity"

You are aware I hope that Bangladesh is NOT the same country as Pakistan.

So while the link you provide shows that there were significant and illegal irregularities surrounding Rahman's 2014 overturned electoral win, there is no evidence that the exact same practises were used in Pakistan, nor that is is any causal or ideological link between the actual crimes in Tower Hamlets and the, only alleged so far, crimes in Pakistan.

Of course the real fly in the ointment for your argument is that Rahman's 2014 win being overturned shows very much that our Democracy is functional, thereby utterly destroying your own argument.


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Clearly the EU and France say no, if country A is an EU state. 

The EU French and Irish position on this is laughable. For years illegals have poured into the UK from the EU in their hundreds of thousands, the EU French and Irish say the British government cannot send them back. But as soon as illegals cross from Northern Ireland to Ireland, the EU France and Ireland insist British government should take them back! Double standards? LOL. The EU's position on this is a complete joke and the world can see it. Unfortunately for the UK we have weak appeasing politicians who, as far as the EU are concerned, are about to get even weaker. God help us.