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Dammit
Reading some of the analysis it would appear that the effect of the bill is to make the UK's human rights law diverge from the ECHR version, and more amenable to direction by the executive where there's a potential clash between e.g. Patel wanting to send people to Rwanda and their status in human rights law that would exempt them.
But, that's domestic law, which means that lefty-metropolitan-remoaner-elite lawyers will take the case to Strasbourg, where the UK government will lose.
And, as it effectively says to UK citizens "you must go to Strasbourg to assert your rights" this is going to happen (I suspect, with our government) frequently.
Which means that the UK Gov are going to be found to be in-breach of their international treaty obligations, by dint of infringing their own citizens human rights, over and over.
Putting aside the lefty-remoaner side of things, does any government publicly want to be a loser, repeatedly? How's that going to play out with their base - "We try to send them home, then we lose in court, every time, and have to bring them back". Or, I suppose, we just ignore our commitments under international law.
Which brings us to the GFA, which requires a full inclusion into NI law of the ECHR schedules, not the diverged version that is the new Bill of Rights - being a member of the ECHR is not enough.
IDK how this pans out, but it's a fucking mess.