There might be some stories from immigration tribunals that, let's say, improve in the telling, but anyone who knows the system knows this:
- The main problem is not the Human Rights Act as such, it's a lot of case law downstream of the HRA which makes it extremely difficult to deport anyone
- The asylum system is very easy to game
- Immigration lawyers, when arguing why their client should be allowed to stay, have a habit of throwing as many reasons as they can think of at the wall to see what sticks
If the BBC, with its inbuilt biases, is doing in-depth reporting on fake claims, you can be fairly confident that there's a real problem.
And there are broader questions about whether it's sustainable to take an asylum system designed post-1945 for smallish numbers of people facing persecution by their governments, and keep on indefinitely expanding the numbers of people who can apply and the reasons that will be accepted for an application.
The system doesn't work. Shabana Mahmood, who is in charge of the system, says it doesn't work. We don't need to start theorising about some elaborate psyop to distract us from the real issues.