We can learn a lot about TMay’s negotiating style from this chain of events when she was Home Secretary
2. Once upon a time Theresa was Home Secretary.
One day she had to deal with a request from Jordan for Abu's deportation.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
3. She was not the first Home Secretary to have to deal with this request. But there was a problem.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
5. And if so, it was not lawfully open to the UK under ECHR to deport anybody if there was prospect of torture-gained evidence being used.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
7. Click here https://t.co/peO6mra3Dd and see how many QCs she instructed for one appeal.
One QC.
Two QCs.
Three QCs.Yes, three QCs.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
9. But Theresa still lost that case. She lost every appeal, however much taxpayers' money she threw at the case.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
11. Having lost in her attempt at shouting at the courts, Theresa tried a new tactic.
She shouted at Europe.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
13. This idea did not get far, because it was laughed at by a Lord Chancellor called Kenneth.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
15. And so Theresa quietly did a sensible deal with Jordan where they agreed never to use torture-based evidence.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
17. But Theresa did not want to talk about it.
Instead she made out she had deported him "despite" ECHR rather than in compliance with it.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
19. Theresa ended up doing a sensible deal on Abu, contrary to the expectations and demands of the press, but then pretended she hadn't.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017
21. And Theresa got another job where she shouted at courts and at Europe, getting press into a frenzy, and then she….
(to be continued).
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) May 4, 2017