UK Judge Grants Gaza Family Residency Amid Controversy Over Family Ties

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A British immigration judge who recently ruled in favor of granting a Palestinian family the right to live in the UK has come under scrutiny due to his father’s outspoken views on Israel. Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor approved a family of six seeking refuge from Gaza to remain in Britain, despite their application being submitted through a scheme designed for Ukrainian refugees.  

 

His father, Richard Norton-Taylor, a former journalist for *The Guardian*, has long been an active commentator on security and defense matters. Now writing for *Declassified UK*, he frequently expresses strong criticisms of Israel’s actions, particularly in relation to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.  

 

Last March, Richard Norton-Taylor backed a petition on X (formerly Twitter) urging Haringey council in north London to “stop supporting genocide in Palestine.” In May, he encouraged his followers to pressure MPs into pushing for the UK Government to recognize Palestine without preconditions. By December, he was amplifying messages from the activist group Led By Donkeys, reposting footage of a large banner draped over Parliament Square that read: “Yes, it’s a genocide.”  

 

Beyond his comments on the Middle East, Richard Norton-Taylor has previously advocated for controversial geopolitical positions. In a 2016 appearance on BBC Two’s *Daily Politics*, he argued that Britain should relinquish control of both the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar.  

 

Judge Hugo Norton-Taylor’s decision to grant the Gazan family residency is the latest in a series of rulings that have attracted attention. However, his personal ties and potential influences have now become part of the wider debate surrounding the case.

 

Kemi Badenoch begins PMQs by asking Keir Starmer about a family of six from Gaza, who have been given refuge in the UK, through the Ukraine Family Scheme. The Prime Minister replied saying he 'does not agree with the decision'

Kemi Badenoch begins PMQs by asking Keir Starmer about a family of six from Gaza, who have been given refuge in the UK, through the Ukraine Family Scheme.

The Prime Minister replied saying he 'does not agree with the decision'https://t.co/al7j1cCtic

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Based on a report by Daily Telegraph 2025-02-14

 

 

[hotsun]

The UK will not be safe for all non-Allah believers

[jippytum]

This is a misuse of the immigration statute and opens the door to more immigrants of muslim faith to the UK. 

The welcome to all immigrants is not  accepted by the majority of British voters hence the popular rise of right wing opinion in the UK. 

[Watawattana]

What?  A British Judge with a political bias? Surely not?  Wouldn't happen anywhere else in the world would it?

[Smokey and the Bandit]

Just what  the UK needs, more Muslims??🙄

[Chomper Higgot]

7 hours ago, Social Media said:

His father, Richard Norton-Taylor, a former journalist for *The Guardian*, has long been an active commentator on security and defense matters. Now writing for *Declassified UK*, he frequently expresses strong criticisms of Israel’s actions, particularly in relation to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.  

 

How dare he express his views, the cad. 

And the outrage of it all, a judge having such a father.

 

 

[jippytum]

7 hours ago, hotsun said:

The UK will not be safe for all non-Allah believers

Currrently there are 1700 Mosques in the UK.  The most mosques in any country oher than Turkey. 

The building of affordable housing is stagnent  in the UK however the buliding of  muslim places of worship is rampant. Tells a story. 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, jippytum said:

Currrently there are 1700 Mosques in the UK.  The most mosques in any country oher than Turkey. 

The building of affordable housing is stagnent  in the UK however the buliding of  muslim places of worship is rampant. Tells a story. 

So long as no public funds are used why does it bother you?

[coolcarer]

Y

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So long as no public funds are used why does it bother you?

 Bothers me. a massive budget from UK tax payers is allocated for the security of those mosques. the more there is the more expense paid out by public funding. that’s without the mosques that are sometimes used as terrorist hubs by the Imans to preach their Islamic fundamentalist views.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, coolcarer said:

Y

 Bothers me. a massive budget from UK tax payers is allocated for the security of those mosques. the more there is the more expense paid out by public funding. that’s without the mosques that are sometimes used as terrorist hubs by the Imans to preach their Islamic fundamentalist views.

Do you have a link to this Mosque security budget and if so why do you not allocate that cost against the criminals who attack places of worship?

 

 

 

[coolcarer]

11 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Do you have a link to this Mosque security budget and if so why do you not allocate that cost against the criminals who attack places of worship?

 

 

Yes I have but I am not the gov so cannot allocate it anywhere. Perhaps you should tell some mosques such as the ones that hold hate speech and imans who preach Islamist fundamentalism to stop there violent rhetoric

[Purdey]

The issue that makes immigrants dislike the country they now live in is racism. Give them an education and ability to make personal wealth usually changes their attitude. Look at the Saudis who have homes in the UK. The smoke, drink alcohol and gamble. Just like a local.

🙏

[nauseus]

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

How dare he express his views, the cad. 

And the outrage of it all, a judge having such a father.

 

 

 

The problem, in this case, is the son.

 

Another problem is how a single judge can rule in such a careless way.

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So long as no public funds are used why does it bother you?

 

The cost of all this property and "development" must be very high, so the source of the funds might be concerning?

[nauseus]

45 minutes ago, Purdey said:

The issue that makes immigrants dislike the country they now live in is racism. Give them an education and ability to make personal wealth usually changes their attitude. Look at the Saudis who have homes in the UK. The smoke, drink alcohol and gamble. Just like a local.

🙏

 

Full of it, like a Christmas turkey. If these immigrants dislike the UK then why do they elect to come - even pay to come? The Saudis you are describing are not the same and are already privileged and monied so much, that they and can afford whatever they care to buy, immigrant or not. 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, coolcarer said:

Yes I have but I am not the gov so cannot allocate it anywhere. Perhaps you should tell some mosques such as the ones that hold hate speech and imans who preach Islamist fundamentalism to stop there violent rhetoric

So you don’t have a link, it was something you made up.

 

Kind of begs the question, what else are you making up?

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

The problem, in this case, is the son.

 

Another problem is how a single judge can rule in such a careless way.

So why the discussion of the father?

 

Unless of course there isn’t really a problem with the son, and it’s necessary to attempt to smear him with the outrage of his father expressing his own views.

 

Judges rule on matters of law.

 

Perhaps someone drafted the law loosely.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

The cost of all this property and "development" must be very high, so the source of the funds might be concerning?

So long as it’s not out of your own pocket or taxes you pay, why is the cost concerning to you?

 

 

 

 

[coolcarer]

13 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So you don’t have a link, it was something you made up.

 

Kind of begs the question, what else are you making up?

Read my post again, I specifically said I did have a link. I have many actually it’s so well known. Here is just one.

 

Government commits more funding to protect UK Muslims
The government has committed to providing UK Muslims with more than £117 million of protective security funding over the next 4 years.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-commits-more-funding-to-protect-uk-muslims
 

I also have a link that states most UK mosques are of charitable status and as such can can obtain grants and have many benefit's including tax. 
 

So now tell me. What was it I was making up? My tax money contributes to these places of which some spread their hate in the UK. Oh yea I have a link to that too.

[nauseus]

51 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So why the discussion of the father?

 

Unless of course there isn’t really a problem with the son, and it’s necessary to attempt to smear him with the outrage of his father expressing his own views.

 

Judges rule on matters of law.

 

Perhaps someone drafted the law loosely.

 

Good question, the father's politics may be irrelevant.

 

However, even Starmer has called this ruling an error. This "judge" has a history of controversial rulings, with this one again using an EHCR rule, ignoring the fact that this application was made via the facility for Ukrainian refugees. 

 

I think that the problem here is that too many positions of power are allowed to be occupied by political activists.

 

 

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So long as it’s not out of your own pocket or taxes you pay, why is the cost concerning to you?

 

 

 

 

 

That would depend on who is doing the funding, and how and why?

[mogandave]

Do we think the Gazen will live in the same neighborhood as the judge? 

 

Go to the same schools as his kids?

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, coolcarer said:

Read my post again, I specifically said I did have a link. I have many actually it’s so well known. Here is just one.

 

Government commits more funding to protect UK Muslims
The government has committed to providing UK Muslims with more than £117 million of protective security funding over the next 4 years.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-commits-more-funding-to-protect-uk-muslims
 

I also have a link that states most UK mosques are of charitable status and as such can can obtain grants and have many benefit's including tax. 
 

So now tell me. What was it I was making up? My tax money contributes to these places of which some spread their hate in the UK. Oh yea I have a link to that too.

What’s the problem with the government providing funds to protect communities subject to threats of violence?

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

That would depend on who is doing the funding, and how and why?

Does this bother you when other buildings are being built?

 

[coolcarer]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

What’s the problem with the government providing funds to protect communities subject to threats of violence?

 

 

Let’s wind back a bit to the part where you claimed I was making things up. after that slander I expect an apology before I go back to your original post of why. the government does not only provide funds for security either. 
 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So you don’t have a link, it was something you made up.

 

Kind of begs the question, what else are you making up?

 

[nauseus]

9 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Does this bother you when other buildings are being built?

 

 

I'm happy to say that you've lost me.

[Bkk Brian]

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So long as no public funds are used why does it bother you?

But there are public funds given to mosques, plenty of them. In return the preachers give hate sermons. Does that not bother you?

 

Charity Commission ‘examines’ British mosques that hosted pro-Hamas hate preachers
Sermons made since terrorist group’s October 7 attack include calls to ‘destroy Israel’, ‘kill the Jews’ and ‘wage your war for Allah'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/03/charity-commission-examines-mosques-after-pro-hamas-sermons/

https://archive.ph/uYF9h

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

8 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

Let’s wind back a bit to the part where you claimed I was making things up. after that slander I expect an apology before I go back to your original post of why. the government does not only provide funds for security either. 
 

 

I apologize. You weren’t making stuff up, you were misrepresenting the Government’s funding to protect both Muslim and Jewish communities in the UK.

 

The funding is a fixed amount, it does not increase just because someone builds a new Mosque.

Thank you for the link.

[coolcarer]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I apologize. You weren’t making stuff up, you were misrepresenting the Government’s funding to protect both Muslim and Jewish communities in the UK.

 

The funding is a fixed amount, it does not increase just because someone builds a new Mosque.

Thank you for the link.

Now quote me where I was misrepresenting. logic dictates the budget is given on the number of mosques that need it. If here is an increase the next budget will no doubt reflect that.

 

Why do you also keep ignoring that this is by far not the only source of public funding they get?

[Chomper Higgot]

15 hours ago, Social Media said:

Kemi Badenoch begins PMQs by asking Keir Starmer about a family of six from Gaza, who have been given refuge in the UK, through the Ukraine Family Scheme. The Prime Minister replied saying he 'does not agree with the decision'

Had Badenoch any sense she would have stopped stopped, but she didn’t.

 

She then continued with her pre-planned questions seemingly not noticing PM Starmer had said he did not agree with the judges ruling.

 

In doing so she left the door wide open for Starmer to remind her that it was the Tories that put the immigration specific immigration in place, it was the Tories that set up the ruling the Judge passed.

 

Another Tory mess for Labour to fix.

 
 

Bit do get distracted by the outrage of the judge’s father expressing his own views.