The Rwanda bill has been passed. People seeking asylum in the UK are no longer safe. This bill has been criticised by many human rights groups, yet parliment have still decided to go ahead with it. People are seeking safety in the UK, and are being turned away. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.". The Rwanda bill prevents this. There is no conformation that people sent to Rwanda will be safe there. This is a blatant violation of human rights. Asylum seekers are human too, and they should be treated as such.

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End the harmful practice of deporting or otherwise removing LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in the UK, seeking alternative solutions that do not put people at risk of harm. No-one who is an LGBTIQ+ person should be sent to Rwanda or another third country, or deported.

This is despicable. How can you justify detaining and removing people that are complying with the immigration system. These are people that are likely traumatised and already suffering under the system and yet they will be forced to leave again from places where they are trying to rebuild their lives.

Where have these judges been? Why are people being held in indefinite detention waiting for their hearings when these courtrooms and judges were apparently available. This is incomprehensible to me.

This government has no fucking shame

“Small boat” migrant arrivals to UK reached one-day high

711 people were brought ashore in one day this week after trying to cross the Channel in small boats to reach the UK.

The number is the highest so far this year and comes as London claims its “stop the boats” plan is working, thanks in part to a controversial deportation scheme to Rwanda.

The number of arrivals on Wednesday surpassed the previous high of 534 recorded on 14 April, bringing the total number of migrants who have crossed the Channel this year to 8,278. The highest number of arrivals in a single day was 1,295, recorded on 22 August 2022.

On Wednesday, French police said they had rescued 66 people after their boat nearly sank off the coastal town of Dieppe.

Migration – both regular and irregular – has become a major political issue in Britain, given the government’s pledge to tighten the country’s borders after leaving the European Union. However, this has proved harder to implement, with the Conservative government desperate to extol its successes ahead of the general election later this year.

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The Tory Migration Catastrophe

How Conservative Immigration Policy Will Destroy Its Thatcherite Model

Source: The Financial Times

By Honest John

LIKE A desperate gambler deciding to bet his shirt on one last turn of the roulette wheel, Rishi Sunak has staked his entire political reputation on the latest iteration of the Tories’ Rwanda bill. This is a piece of legislation which has been declared illegal by the British Supreme Court; which has so far cost the British taxpayer £240m with a further £50m due to be paid to Rwanda next year; which is considered as impractical as it is morally questionable and which has seen precisely zero asylum seekers so far sent to Rwanda to have their claims processed. This sad wheeze is going to be dragged before the House of Commons once more, while Sunak desperately claims black is white and that Rwanda can miraculously become a safe country for asylum seekers by the passing of a law in Westminster. The Prime Minister’s determination to turn Tuesday’s vote on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill into effectively a vote of confidence in his leadership is simultaneously reckless and absurd. Sunak’s desperation to quieten the increasing insurrectionary noises from his party’s right wing in the wake of the dismissal of Suella Braverman, has led him to to invest all his hopes in a piece of legislation for which there is no evidence will succeed in deterring the “small boats” (its stated claim), which will place the U.K. once again in breach of international law and will succeed only in enriching the government of Rwanda, incredulously receiving millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money for its civic infrastructure, gifted by a country whose own infrastructure is falling apart. It is actually hard to find anyone outside the fevered confines of Sunak’s inner circle who supports the plan or thinks it will work. Apart perhaps from the government of Rwanda itself that is.

It is easy to laugh at the infantile antics of a government that, in any real sense, has ceased to function and to treat this latest act in the Tory psychodrama as the piece of absurdist political theatre it undoubtedly is, but the Rwanda bill is simply the congealing icing on the top of a poisonous cake that the Conservatives have been serving up for years, masquerading as migration “policy”. This is legislation that is as contradictory as it is cruel; as performative as it is populist. For the Conservatives, migration is their key emergency break glass area of public policy. When everything else that they and the succession of hopeless lightweights they have foisted on the country as Prime Ministers, has turned to dung at their touch, they still believe that the prejudice and hatred of “the British People” toward foreigners and immigrants has no bottom level: for Tories you simply cannot go too low on immigration. The Rwanda scheme - when it was first cooked up in the days of Boris Johnson and Priti Patel - had nothing in reality to do with deterring asylum seekers from trying to cross the Channel to Britain; it was all about trying to appeal to a mythical “Red Wall” voter for whom no amount of cruelty, illegality and contempt was too much when it came to migrants. As their polling figures slumped and by election and council election results confirmed their worst electoral fears, the Conservatives still believed that victimising the victims could yet turn it around for them - no matter the dark forces their racist and bile-filled rhetoric might unleash: if they could just once again gaslight the electorate into believing that all the catastrophes of the last fourteen years of Tory rule are, in fact, the fault of incoming foreigners, all may yet be well.

This dismal flirting with the fascist playbook may have resulted in the headline-catching idiocy of Sunak’s latest Rwanda wheeze, but beneath that blather James Cleverley has announced planned measures that are far more significant, far more damaging, and far more frightening than any amount of ludicrous assertions about the Rwanda scheme. Tired of being taunted by Labour and others about the huge rise in legal migration (its net increase topped 600,000 in 2022) despite all the Tory promises to bring the numbers down over the last fourteen years, the Conservatives’ response is to quite literally attack, and potentially destroy, its own Thatcherite economic model.

For over forty years, Tory politicians have extolled Britain’s “flexible” workforce; its deregulated system; its low wage/low unemployment economy and its marketised society. Indeed, for years we were told by politicians on the right and the left that in a globalised world, mobile and non-unionised workforces, cheap production costs, outsourced supply lines and minimal regulation was essential to the easy access, low price, and plentiful supply digital capitalism that has taken hold in Britain. Key to the success of this model has been migrant labour, first from the EU and now from a swathe of sub-Saharan African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries whose residents have been offered visas to replace the low wage flexible European workers that post-Brexit Britain apparently no longer wants. The legal migrants that the Conservatives are now in such a lather about are an essential component of the Thatcherite economic model they have all been promoting to us for decades. If, as Cleverley maintains, the government wishes to reduce net migration figures by 300,000 in 2024, then that is 300,000 workers not available to drive lorries, deliver Amazon parcels, pick our crops, clean our offices, valet our cars, serve in our restaurants and, crucially staff our hospitals and care homes. By creating a shortage of deregulated low wage labour, the Tories will simultaneously damage large parts of the service economy and drive up wages, and with it inflation. In their desperate belief that hatred of foreigners will somehow save them from oblivion at the next General Election, the Conservatives are prepared to throw overboard an approach to employment and wages that has sustained them for nearly two generations and was one of the driving ideological impulses on the right that drove Brexit. The revolution has truly begun to eat itself.

Apart from the casual abandonment of what has been the essence of right-wing Toryism for years, Cleverley has also managed to introduce the class-based nastiness of the Sklled Worker minimum salary threshold of £38,700 pa that legal migrants and their dependents must meet. This is a measure that will drive families apart, possibly force British citizens, married to foreigners but earning below the threshold, to emigrate to be with their loved ones and cause untold damage to the university sector (one of the few growth areas of the British economy) and the NHS and care sector, already on its knees after years of austerity and disproportionately reliant on migrant labour. It is as if the Tories are not content with the calamities that austerity, Brexit and Trussonomics have already wrought on British society: with this latest episode of ill-thought through prejudicial nonsense, they seem to want to finish it off altogether. I have predicted for some time the implosion of modern Toryism - its Thatcherite ideology a busted flush and its Brexit nationalist makeover lacking in depth or practical solutions; but what I hadn’t bargained for was that the Tories would try to take the whole country down with them.

Never has a government looked more threadbare, pointless, desperate and unlovable. All they have left to offer is hatred, racism and self-defeating vindictiveness. If Sunak’s absurd posturing over his doomed Rwanda bill results in his resignation before Christmas and a January General Election, the “British People” that this band of charlatans and incompetents keep claiming to speak for, but who in reality they do not understand, will breathe a sigh of relief, because we the people will at last be given the opportunity to cast this catastrophic version of Toryism into an electoral oblivion it so richly deserves and from which it will, hopefully, never emerge.

Migration may yet be modern Conservatism’s epitaph.

10th December 2023

Legal and human rights experts on Tuesday said the British Conservative Party's decision to push through a bill allowing the government to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda—effectively overriding last year's Supreme Court ruling—represented a "desperate low" from lawmakers eager to exploit migrants ahead of elections expected later this year.

"A lot of this is performative cruelty," Daniel Merriman, a lawyer whose clients have included some asylum-seekers whom the Tories tried to deport after it first introduced its plan in 2022, toldNPR. "The elephant in the room is the upcoming election."

After a prolonged debate, the unelected House of Lords cleared the way to pass the Safety of Rwanda bill early Tuesday morning, after dropping several proposed amendments including one that would have required independent verification that the central African country is a safe place to send migrants.

The House of Commons then passed the bill, and King Charles III is expected to formally approve the legislation in the coming days.

The bill requires courts and immigration officials to "conclusively treat the Republic of Rwanda as a safe country" to send asylum-seekers, even though the Supreme Court ruled in November that people deported to the country would face a significant risk of refoulement, or being sent back to the countries where they originally fled persecution or violence.

The Conservative government signed a treaty with Rwanda last December to strengthen protections for asylum-seekers, including a provision that partially bans Rwanda from sending people back to their home countries.

But the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on the U.K. to abandon the plan and instead "take practical measures to address irregular flows of refugees and migrants, based on international cooperation and respect for international human rights law."

"In this morning’s press conference into the cover up of the grooming and gang rape of children in Rochdale, there was a section of @MaggieOliverUK’s statement that was muted.

When the sound was turned off, MAGGIE OLIVER revealed how @gmpolice legal team are preventing victims of the Rape Gangs from giving evidence to @AndyBurnhamGM Review Team.

Perhaps someone at the proven rape gang protecting police force can explain why children that survived gang rape and trafficking are being prevented from sharing how they were failed by the authorities?

#AndyBurnham later admitted he did not have the necessary powers to get to the truth. Yet he still refuses to call

In the government, who through the powers of a Public Inquiry, could get to the truth and hold every individual responsible in the cover up to account for their actions.

Listen to this and ask yourself why the sound was turned off and why, knowing that every allegation was true, the Gtr Manchester Mayor is still avoiding calling for a Public Inquiry?

Rwandan politician who criticised Sunak’s bill fears for her safety | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

This bill will feasibly have political refugees fleeing Rwanda being resettled in Rwanda.

Can the british government stop being so atrocious that they actually make me appreciate that we have the house of lords

Literally cannot get over the British government trying to force that Troubles Legacy bill when no party in Northern Ireland supports it. They never all agree on anything

Around twenty percent of the UK population are living in poverty, and these make up ten percent of people who work a full time job. Despite this, the Tory government decides to spend its funds on sending people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda. I have explained in a previous post how awful this is. The Tory government does not care about the people. I fully believe that you could completely kill off the UK population, apart from the rich and the tory government, and they wouldn't bat an eye.

A male Red-billed Firefinch perched in the shade.📍@UmusambiV in Kigali, Rwanda

📸 by Will Wilson @2wsphotography

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Why the actual fuck am I still having to tell people that the Rwanda act will not help anyone? That it's not a good thing, that it won't help the people desperate enough to risk their lives crossing the channel in cheap inflatable boats, that it won't even help the uk job market or economy like they keep claiming.

UK, Irish ministers to hold talks amid escalating Rwanda dispute

UK and Irish ministers will meet in London on Monday amid a growing scandal over migrants travelling from Britain to Ireland.

Recent figures show that due to changing migration trends, more than 80 per cent of people claiming asylum in Ireland are coming from across the land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the increase in applications showed that Rwanda’s plan to send asylum seekers to the East African country to deter others from crossing the Channel was working.

Irish authorities want to send asylum seekers back to the UK under emergency legislation. However, 10 Downing Street has rejected any offer by Ireland to do so unless France agrees to do the same.

Britain’s Work and Pensions Minister Mel Stride on Monday said:

We are already seeing the early signs of the deterrent effect, which the whole purpose of the Rwanda bill and Rwanda approach is about. What we are seeing in this case is people leaving the UK and going to the Republic of Ireland. Now there will clearly be discussions between our government and theirs. I very much doubt we are going to end up in a position where we will be taking anybody back, not least because of course when it comes to France, another EU country, they are not in the business of taking illegal migrants who come here back, either.

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i imagine Stress is uh. greatly contributing to *gestures at body* All This