ProjectFearlessnessThe U.K. government Supreme Court ruling on Rwanda is being read out right now, and it's sounding like a No.
Supreme Court Judge Reed is reading out all the reasons why the U.K. governments plan of sending refugees to Rwanda may be considered unlawful. It doesn't sound good for the U.K. government.
Yes! The Supreme Court in the U.K has ruled that it is unlawful to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
I'm not a legal expert, and I look forward to seeing a proper assessment, but the Supreme Court judgement on the U.K. government's plan to offshore asylum seekers to Rwanda seems to be quite clear cut.
The ruling is that asylum seekers would definitely be at risk of refoulement, so it's unlawful. There are no grey areas.
"Today’s judgment should bring this shameful mark on the UK’s history to a close.
Never again should our government seek to shirk our country’s responsibility to offer sanctuary to those caught up in horrors around the world.
All the architects of the Rwanda plan may be gone but unless the government changes course and introduces a policy of safe passage, then the rest should follow them out the door."
Steve Smith,
Care4Calais,
U.K.
"Intentions and aspirations do not necessarily correspond to reality: the question is whether they are achievable in practice."
Verdict on the U.K. government, Judge Reed,
Supreme Court,
U.K.
In response to the U.K. Supreme Court's ruling on the Rwanda scheme, PM Sunak says the important thing is that the court ruled that it wasn't illegal to send refugees to a third country.
Never mind that this point has been long established in international law and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this ruling.
He lost, and then he lost again, and now he's lying about the parts he says he won.
The Supreme Court also set out in some detail how the U.K. government's Rwanda scheme was unlawful under U.K. law, not just the ECHR.
Leaving the ECHR would do absolutely nothing to make the Rwanda scheme lawful.
I've got a feeling this won't stop the right wing nutjobs in the Tory party from banging on about having to leave the ECHR for the foreseeable.
And as sure as shit follows shovel, the right-wing nutjobs in the U.K. Tory party are already frothing at the mouth over the Supreme Court ruling that the Rwanda refugee deportation scheme is unlawful.
Gullis, Mogg, Anderson and the other ones have had a meeting this morning. They are calling for emergency legislation to override everything and keep Suella's dream alive.
Good luck with that.
In the U.K., Lee Anderson, deputy chair of the ruling Tory party is recommending that the government ignores the Supreme Court ruling that deporting refugees to Rwanda is unlawful. He thinks they 'should just stick them on a plane anyway'.
In any other country, we would call this an outrageous disregard for the rule of law. Here, we just call it a Wednesday.
Here we are. The actual deputy chair of the U.K. Conservative party, Lee Anderson, calling to ignore the law.
U.K. PM Rishi Sunak was just asked if he agreed with Lee Anderson's remarks that the U.K. government should ignore the law and just put refugees on plane to Rwanda.
Sunak said he shares Anderson's frustrations....
U.K. PM Sunak insists he will be bringing in emergency legislation to rule that Rwanda is a safe country to send refugees to, and to bypass the ECHR and the U.K. Supreme Court's ruling that it isn't.
This is a constitutional outrage. Also, it's just not going to happen, not this side of the election, and they are going to lose that.
As former U.K. Attorney General Dominic Grieve said about this subject "they're living in a fantasy world."
The main take away from today's announcement that the U.K. government is to introduce emergency legislation to deport refugees to Rwanda is that it's absolute nonsense. Unworkable nonsense
I'm telling you, it's nonsense. It's so much nonsense that we forget that Rwanda can only take about 375 asylum seekers per year and the U.K. has an average of 40,000 asylum seekers arriving per year. The amount of work they're putting in to solve less than 1% of the 'problem' is bizarre.
I never thought I'd be saying this but I'm looking at Lee Anderson's 'plan' to just ignore the law and stick asylum seekers on a plane to Rwanda, and Rishi Sunak's 'plan' to introduce emergency legislation to make it legal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, and it's hard to see which one of them is stuck in the bigger fantasy.
Of the two, Anderson's has got more chance of actually happening.
Jesus.
Julia BarrellYup. Just passing a law saying somewhere is safe doesn't make it so.
This is all so amateur and desperate.
LiverpoolWiz@ProjectFearlessness The UK has already paid the Rwandan government £140 million and has suddenly started to think it ought to show something for this largesse. Having thrown away many £billions on their wealthy pals.
#rwanda #Tory #Torycorruption
#rwanda #Tory #Torycorruption
Wokerati@DevraWiz @ProjectFearlessness I don't know how much Rwanda got before they slashed DFID - but I can't help wondering if they've just reallocated funds so they can attach terms and conditions to what was supposed to be international aid?
Mysturji@ProjectFearlessness
It’s gammon-fodder.
But what do you expect from a rogue state?
They might even do it. (Pass the legislation) but will they get away with it?
Only if we let them. Like everything else they’ve gotten away with.
It’s gammon-fodder.
But what do you expect from a rogue state?
They might even do it. (Pass the legislation) but will they get away with it?
Only if we let them. Like everything else they’ve gotten away with.
ex or current IDF unwelcome@ProjectFearlessness you cannot rule for somewhere else to be safe and there is no way to enforce a treaty
@JohnLoader6
I'm still catching up on all the legal implications of Rishi's emergency legislation. The short story is that the Lord's can and most likely will delay the legislation for a year, taking us past the next election. So it's pretty much a non starter.
Also, even if it did get through parliament, the government would be straight into the European Court of Human Rights. It's all so unrealistic.
I'm still catching up on all the legal implications of Rishi's emergency legislation. The short story is that the Lord's can and most likely will delay the legislation for a year, taking us past the next election. So it's pretty much a non starter.
Also, even if it did get through parliament, the government would be straight into the European Court of Human Rights. It's all so unrealistic.
Helen Graham@ProjectFearlessness @JohnLoader6 I agree about the Lords ,despite misgivings about having an unelected house so far its been more or less the only real opposition in Westminister to the more draconian measures the govt has taken .I would like to think that it would be refused royal approval also
@Helengraham @JohnLoader6
Yes, we'll have to see what this emergency legislation looks like before we make any judgements on how far it will get, but the way Sunak has described it today, the chances are slim to disappearing.
Yes, we'll have to see what this emergency legislation looks like before we make any judgements on how far it will get, but the way Sunak has described it today, the chances are slim to disappearing.
KeithC@ProjectFearlessness it's like voting to repeal the law of gravity. Reality doesn't care what you think
Probertd8@ProjectFearlessness Anderson isn't far off his thug portrayal in Private Eye.
@Probertd8 We can only imagine what he says in private conversations.
@ProjectFearlessness I'd rather not.
Ravensrod 🫖 🍰@ProjectFearlessness
I'm all for ignoring the law against lynching corrupt polititians
I'm all for ignoring the law against lynching corrupt polititians
@ravensrod
That seems a bit harsh, but this is what Lee Anderson has unleashed. If we ignore the laws we don't agree with, where are we?
That seems a bit harsh, but this is what Lee Anderson has unleashed. If we ignore the laws we don't agree with, where are we?
@ProjectFearlessness
Wel most of the arseholes doing it are in the commons at the moment.
Wel most of the arseholes doing it are in the commons at the moment.
GreenerFuturesLeeAnderthal, please.
A knuckle dragging empty headed thug sounding off to the howling moon loons.
All this distraction, noise and smoke for a tiny percentage of the annual caseload, while the backlog simply grows.
RiaResists@ProjectFearlessness republiKKKans are doing the same here in the states.
Conservatives around the globe are evil.
Conservatives around the globe are evil.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@ProjectFearlessness This guy is a known fascist, racist and bigot.
@Eetschrijver
Of course he is, it's just that he's saying the quiet bit out loud now.
Of course he is, it's just that he's saying the quiet bit out loud now.
@ProjectFearlessness Point taken.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@ProjectFearlessness I would like to 'ignore the law' if I'm ever in the same room as 30p Lee, as I'm sure he would too.
@Lazarou
Yes, it's probably unlawful to deport Lee Anderson, but we should just stick him on a plane to Rwanda anyway, see how he likes it.
Yes, it's probably unlawful to deport Lee Anderson, but we should just stick him on a plane to Rwanda anyway, see how he likes it.
@ProjectFearlessness now that's a deportation I can get behind!
Axel Foley@ProjectFearlessness It's all going to implode, it's delicious....
@Roadwarrior29
It imploded months ago. They just can't hide it any more.
It imploded months ago. They just can't hide it any more.
James Bilsbrough@ProjectFearlessness @Waxingtonknee interestingly, his parliamentary office doesn’t answer the phone and his constituency office number is no longer listed - one can wonder why!
This is an elected servant of the people (yes, I know) who is suggesting laws be broken.
GeorgieeeBloody fascist🤢🤮
Benjohn@ProjectFearlessness Interesting they explicitly also clarify: it's not the ECHR wot dun it. But our international obligations under other laws.
Presumably, far right Tories and Faragists will next insist the UK leave Earth to stop this infernal international meddling in our sovereignty.
@benjohn Yes, there were 3 or 4 separate U.K. acts of law that made the Rwanda scheme unlawful, but that won't stop the the headbangers in the Tory party. They'll be frothing at the mouth over the ECHR for months now.