Rwanda scheme: First Rwanda flight delayed until at least 24 July

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First illegal immigrant sent to Rwanda under voluntary scheme

https://inews.co.uk/news/first-illegal-immigrant-sent-to-rwanda-under-voluntary-scheme-3033401

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Stiffy Byng

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As the article notes: this removal was not carried out under the controversial scheme. The man in question made a claim for asylum which failed. It would be illegal for him to stay in the UK. The controversial Rwanda scheme, however, aims to move people whose asylum claims have not yet been processed to Rwanda and have the claims processed by Rwanda.

Every year, a number of migrants are removed from the UK, some because asylum claims have failed, some because they over stayed after being granted a limited permission to stay, some because they committed a crime. I used to represent the Home Office in Court challenges to such removals (most of the cases I did involved criminals). Media sometimes suggest that the UK had or has an open door immigration policy, but the reality is that immigration is controlled. Whether the type and extent of control is set correctly is of course a subject of political debate.

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Saraa B

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Original post by Stiffy Byng

The Irish High Court has ruled that the UK is not a safe country for asylum seekers, and that therefore the Irish government was wrong to classify the UK as safe. Sunak has brought disgrace on the UK, now classed by the independent court of a democratic nation as a breaker of international law.
And for what? To move a few people to a country with a dreadful human rights record, at huge expense. The attempt to create a wedge issue, Brexit style, and win the election by harvesting the votes of people who are ill-informed and easily alarmed is failing. There is no evidence that the Rwanda plan is widely supported by voters. For much less money, the Government could have allocated sufficient resources to the asylum system, and could have negotiated sensibly with the EU. The Government chose instead cynically to manufacture a crisis.
The same Government talks of criminalising homelessness, of removing benefits from the sick, and of other measures targeted at the poor and vulnerable. It appears that Sunak, a man just as morally bankrupt as Boris Johnson, may be determined to cling onto power until next January, before heading off to California, never to face any consequence for his callous incompetence and corruption. The UK has not been so governed so badly or so corruptly since the eighteenth century. Quite an achievement!
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelands-declaration-of-uk-as-safe-third-country-is-unlawful-high-court-rules-1605217.html?utm_campaign=article&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web

My goodness, your words are incredible!

You actually give me hope for humanity..

If only there were more people with your integrity, intelligence, comprehensive and accurate view of the world, and wisdom - the world would be a far better place.

I apologise to quote you, however, if we could also rid the "morally bankrupt" members of Government and replace them with likeminded people of yourself, society might have a fighting chance. 🙂

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https://news.sky.com/story/amp/sir-keir-starmer-has-no-doubt-rwanda-flights-will-get-off-ground-but-labour-would-cancel-scheme-straight-away-13132685

Starmer would scrap the scheme it seems

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N.Ireland Court Blocks UK Law To Deport Asylum-seekers To Rwanda

https://www.barrons.com/news/n-ireland-court-blocks-uk-law-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda-0a3cb731

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11jyl1ly4o.amp
First Rwanda flight delayed until at least 24 July

Just scrap the scheme…

Reply 46

StriderHort

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Original post by Talkative Toad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11jyl1ly4o.amp
First Rwanda flight delayed until at least 24 July
Just scrap the scheme…

Sadly if the Tories scrap it now, they know they can't pass the buck for it failing onto Labour.

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Stiffy Byng

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Original post by Talkative Toad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11jyl1ly4o.amp
First Rwanda flight delayed until at least 24 July
Just scrap the scheme…

The scheme is scrapped already. Labour will win the election. Labour will (rightly) scrap the scheme.

The scheme could never have succeeded. It flies in the face of international law. It was first dreamt up by that odious crook Johnson to divert people from his crookery. The odious crook Sunak has tried but failed to make the scheme a Brexit-style wedge issue. Even many right wingers know that the scheme is nonsense.

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Original post by Stiffy Byng

The scheme is scrapped already. Labour will win the election. Labour will (rightly) scrap the scheme.

The scheme could never have succeeded. It flies in the face of international law. It was first dreamt up by that odious crook Johnson to divert people from his crookery. The odious crook Sunak has tried but failed to make the scheme a Brexit-style wedge issue. Even many right wingers know that the scheme is nonsense.

I meant that Rishi himself should be the scheme to bed but I agree.

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Stiffy Byng

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Original post by Talkative Toad

I meant that Rishi himself should be the scheme to bed but I agree.

The idiot has bet the farm on the scheme - a demonstration of his lack of political judgment.

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StriderHort

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Original post by Talkative Toad

I meant that Rishi himself should be the scheme to bed but I agree.

As Stiffy said, he's already taken this too far as personal crusade to appese others in the party while pig headedly insisting it's 'the will of the people' to back down now. He would need to either admit he was plain wrong or simply lying.