Tory ministers forced into humiliating climbdown over Rwanda deportation flights | Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab indicated removals would be halted until after the High Court judgement – despite Priti Patel signalling she was preparing for a flight within weeks
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> Asked when the first asylum seekers will be deported to Rwanda, ex-human rights lawyer Mr Raab admitted: “I don’t think I can give a precise date” . . .
> He said the Government would “adhere” to the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling . . .
> Raab also insisted the Government did not plan to quit the European Convention of Human Rights . . .
> “Our plans involve staying within the Convention, the European Convention.”
Pulling out of the ECHR would not only [break the Good Friday Agreement](https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/brexit-and-human-rights-in-northern-ireland/) but also [clobber Johnson’s “oven ready” deal](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2021/01/17/the-brexit-deal-locks-the-uk-into-continued-strasbourg-human-rights-court-membership/) with a giant wrecking ball.
Government in shambles. Bojo does not control anything. He won’t last long. So cool!
It won’t matter I doubt it is a serious policy anyway. It is either an attempt to reduce channel crossings by making it less desirable to come here as opposed to the migrants staying in Europe or its a pure PR policy for anti immigration measures supporters on the right wing.
I just want to personally say a big “Congratulations!” and “Thank you!” to the ECHR and all the left-wing lawyers who have managed to force a stop to the Rwandan scheme 🙂
Genuinely, I am so thankful for them for doing that! I feel like partying!
The reason being is because, by doing so, it has just proved in one big swoop that every single person who voted Leave was right all along to vote that way. And to any people who were on the fence about it, have now seen for themselves just how monstrously controlling and overbearing, dictatorial, and how unjust and unfair it is that the EU is still managing to control the laws and rules on British policy, and it’s just made them all think, “Hang on a minute! That ain’t right! Maybe we are better off out of the EU after all. Let’s scrap the ECHR bill entirely, and impose our own British Bill of Human Rights for our own British people to live by without outside interference from a bunch of bureaucratical numpties who have nothing to do with us!”
Thank you, again, to the ECHR, left-wing lawyers, and even to the whole EU government itself. Thank you, you’ve played an absolute blinder for us Brits and our bright and beautiful future free from your reach! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😀
It’s another fine mess the government has got into.
If only they were as good at anything other than lying, cheating and giving taxpayer’s money to chums.
Is the EU high court?
Why are we even listening to them?
If it’s not an English court then tell it where it can go!
Patel will end up trying to fly them herself.
Big, unlikely to occur, controversial project suddenly launched during partygate succeeds at distracting from bojo the incompetent for weeks; bonuses imminent at Home Office.
I’m not sure this is a humiliating climbdown. It’s a sad state of affairs that the way the narrative can be spun, Johnson will either be able to claim victory after the High Court Judgement and/or point the finger at the left & the EHRC as being enemies of democracy.
What a sad country of hate we have become.
It’s a smoke and mirrors operation anyway. In the deal with Rwanda that Priti Malicious signed is a clause that states for every refugee we send there, they send one of their refugees. A lot of those are people who were displaced by the LRA during the Second Congo War. Although it officially ended in 2002, people are still fleeing the area. One of the more complicating matters is that a lot of the Hutu who committed genocide in ’94 fled to the Congo and are now claiming to be stateless from the Congo and claiming refuge back in Rwanda.
That all of the coverage has been about shutting down the people traffickers businesses without mention of the 1-for-1 swap, is of no surprise.
We should be shipping them off to Bradford they would be begging for Rwanda