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.

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Yes! The Supreme Court in the U.K has ruled that it is unlawful to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

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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.

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"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.

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"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,
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U.K.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Here we are. The actual deputy chair of the U.K. Conservative party, Lee Anderson, calling to ignore the law.

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