Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum.
After a marathon battle of “ping pong” over the key legislation between the Commons and the Lords, the bill finally passed when opposition and crossbench peers gave way on Monday night.
The bill is expected to be granted royal assent on Tuesday. Home Office sources said they have already identified a group of asylum seekers with weak legal claims to remain in the UK who will be part of the first tranche to be sent to east Africa in July.
Sunak has put the bill, which would deport asylum seekers who arrive in the UK by irregular means to Kigali, at the centre of his attempts to stop small boats crossing the Channel.
For a time now I heard that the UK is a dying empire, desperatly clinging on to a version long gone and being stuck in the past.
In wake of recent anti-trans legislation, Brexit, migration-panics and general declining lifestile, I tend to agree with the statement. The UK is falling behind rapidly, but instead of combating that with progressive policy, the embrace of conservtaive ideas like this will just accelerate the decay.
I just hope Scotland and northern Ireland can get out before its too late.
14 years of Conservative rule will do that to a country 🤷♂️
You would think they would have learned from Thatcher.
We as a species have a hard time learning from the past, unfortunately. See gestures at world
True. Trump is on the road to being re-elected.
Labour has been self-sabotaging and removing anyone from leadership that isn’t cut from the same neo-liberal cloth that runs the Democratic party.
That doesn’t make the Tories any less of the inbred pederast hucksters that they are, but it has played a significant role in helping the Tories stay in power.
Funny how Scotland and Northern Ireland can get out but Wales and England are stuck. How do I vote for England independence from the failing U.K.
The idea that a government can instruct the courts to ignore human rights legislation shows how fundamentally broken the liberal “democracy” system is.
This from the government that just made saying “I am intolerant towards the idea of liberal parliamentary democracy” an example of extremism but saying “foreigners don’t deserve human rights” is not extremism.
Please be specific about this being the UK’s democracy and not democracy in general. In Canada for example courts are stronger and it would be much more difficult (albeit not impossible) for our Parliament to do something like this.
I don’t think the judges would like it, but what recourse would they have if the government passed an act such as this in Canada? I could see a judge saying this act breaches X treaties, but then just withdraw from the treaties (edit: which this act is likely a precursor to).
The system of parliamentary liberal democracy is an inherently flawed system.
Im guessing his father in law has business there and needs ppl to work for cheap?
His FIL has enough slaves in his home town and is working on getting more indoctrinated.
It wasn’t actually originally Sunak’s idea, this one was Johnson and Priti Patel. So probably not. Or at least, that wasn’t the original motivation, I would not be surprised in the slightest to hear that they’re moving to exploit it. Reporting in 2022 had said that other places had either been rejected for being unsuitable or had refused to agree to the deal, so it seems like Rwanda was basically just the one place that said yes. Being far from Britain, landlocked, and poor enough relative to Britain to be cheap to persuade (you know, if your idea of value for money is burning it to be a dickhead to refugees) makes it ideal as far as the creators of this policy see it
Its a weird deal. Ppl flee for war or whatever so lets send them to one of the most unstable countries in africa. So i just wonder, there has got to be more behind this. Like some of his “deals”
Yeah, people are being paid for sure. Plus the Tory bastards are openly saying that they’re doing it to discourage people from coming to the UK.
That of course implies that Rwanda is a sufficiently awful place that the risk isn’t worth the potential of getting to live in the UK. That’s pretty damn insulting to Rwanda and cruel towards migrants if true…
Labour have already said they’ll reverse it once they win the next election. My bet would be they’ll get one plane off the ground. This fucking project is going to end up costing in excess of £5,000,000 per person. We could have just housed them in the Savoy for less.
I get what you’re saying, but never underestimate the ability of Blairites with none of the charisma to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Their ineptitude is a big part of the reason why the UK has been under the thumb of the Tories for 14 years…
Jbfc, that’s dark. wtf?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum.
Home Office sources said they have already identified a group of asylum seekers with weak legal claims to remain in the UK who will be part of the first tranche to be sent to east Africa in July.
Matthew Rycroft, the most senior civil servant in the Home Office who has overseen the scheme for two years, previously told MPs he did not have evidence to show that it had a deterrent effect that would make it value for money.
The government will not send those who are eligible under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) to Rwanda, a Home Office minister told peers during one of the many debates held on Monday evening.
Its costs will be measured, not only in money, but in principles debased: disregard for our international commitments, avoiding statutory protections for the vulnerable, and the removal of judicial scrutiny over the core issue of the safety of Rwanda.”
Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: “[The] Tories are the largest party in both Houses of Parliament and they could have scheduled the final stages of the bill a month ago but they voluntarily delayed it because they always want someone else to blame.”
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