These flights will never go ahead will they ! The government needs to think of another way, as at the moment we effectively have an open border in the English Channel.
For fucks sake it’s disgusting that our government thinks that this is acceptable. Our whole fucking country has gone to shit and no one seems to give a toss about anyone else anymore.
Doesn’t seem the worst idea to me
Posted this elsewhere, but thought I’d put it here too:
This may possibly have been the most stupid policy ever proposed by the most stupid British government ever. For the following reasons:
1) It’s inhumane
2) It’s not economically viable (see similar attempt in Australia)
3) There’s no evidence that this deterrent system would work
4) The agreement with Rwanda isn’t actually one way – we would be taking some of their refugees in exchange (see paragraph 16 of the agreement). It would literally have no impact on net asylum seeker figures.
5) It doesn’t even attempt to target the problem – the fact that people smugglers are profiteering from this dangerous practice
6) It can’t attempt to tackle the problem identified in point 5 because it won’t acknowledge the cause of this problem – the fact that alternative legal routes to claiming asylum have been closed down over the last decade. For the record, people weren’t coming over in dinghys on this scale prior to 2010
7) They knew the policy was never, ever going to happen. So it was a total waste of everyone’s time, designed to create yet another distraction from the fact they’ve fucked everything
They knew full well, and were perfectly comfortable to insist on sending vulnerable people there.
When we are still taking in asylum seekers from Rwanda ourselves, it begs belief that the Tories think sending asylum seekers over to Rwanda for processing is a good idea. It is purely ideological and meant to garner support from the far right as it shows the Tories are going to come down harder on asylum seekers than ever before. They will do nothing to stop human trafficking or to improve the lives of people abroad through foreign aid, they will just dump them in whichever country can be paid to take them and be left to rot in a detention centre.
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Who’d have thunk it, eh?
It’s why they chose Rwanda
These flights will never go ahead will they ! The government needs to think of another way, as at the moment we effectively have an open border in the English Channel.
For fucks sake it’s disgusting that our government thinks that this is acceptable. Our whole fucking country has gone to shit and no one seems to give a toss about anyone else anymore.
Doesn’t seem the worst idea to me
Posted this elsewhere, but thought I’d put it here too:
This may possibly have been the most stupid policy ever proposed by the most stupid British government ever. For the following reasons:
1) It’s inhumane
2) It’s not economically viable (see similar attempt in Australia)
3) There’s no evidence that this deterrent system would work
4) The agreement with Rwanda isn’t actually one way – we would be taking some of their refugees in exchange (see paragraph 16 of the agreement). It would literally have no impact on net asylum seeker figures.
5) It doesn’t even attempt to target the problem – the fact that people smugglers are profiteering from this dangerous practice
6) It can’t attempt to tackle the problem identified in point 5 because it won’t acknowledge the cause of this problem – the fact that alternative legal routes to claiming asylum have been closed down over the last decade. For the record, people weren’t coming over in dinghys on this scale prior to 2010
7) They knew the policy was never, ever going to happen. So it was a total waste of everyone’s time, designed to create yet another distraction from the fact they’ve fucked everything
They knew full well, and were perfectly comfortable to insist on sending vulnerable people there.
When we are still taking in asylum seekers from Rwanda ourselves, it begs belief that the Tories think sending asylum seekers over to Rwanda for processing is a good idea. It is purely ideological and meant to garner support from the far right as it shows the Tories are going to come down harder on asylum seekers than ever before. They will do nothing to stop human trafficking or to improve the lives of people abroad through foreign aid, they will just dump them in whichever country can be paid to take them and be left to rot in a detention centre.
We should just send them to Birmingham instead 👌