AIBU to think that not a single refugee will be sent to Rwanda?

[Kendodd]

This is nothing but a bone for the frothers to stoke up the culture wars. This will inevitably end up in court for years, the government will then be using any case to demonise the left, us against them. I bet they're really hoping the poster child court case will feature the most unsympathetic refugee they can find and will be all over the news in the run up to the next election.

Absolutely.

It would be so illegal.

It’s a very well timed mcguffin.

Some Twitter lawyers are theorising there’s so many holes in the scheme it’s designed to fail, then the government can blame “lefty lawyers.” Would put it past them, admittedly.

*wouldnt!

I know!
How thick do they think we are!

YANBU. It's a dead cat to stop everyone from talking about partygate. It's a pretty effective dead cat at that.

I have a feeling this was being prepared as a pre-election news item to attract a certain type of Tory voter but they've dropped it a bit early as a distraction from the fines.

YUP .. pure dead cat.

They think we are stupid.

Because we are... look at all the comments about Johnson being better than the other options..!!

Really .?

Literally ANYONE is a better option than a habitual lier as Prine Minister. !!

Lazy voters stop allowing this. Vote for anyone but this completely corrupt bunch !!

I am hoping you are all correct. Rwanda has an appalling human rights record.

Scary we have just given £120 million to a dictatorship with a dire human rights record. This government has no shame.

I bet Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson think it's a great idea.

Designed to detract from yesterday's news. Will wait to see what they pull out of the bag if there r further fines...

Well I really fucking hope so. What an utterly disgraceful suggestion. So, either way, Boris and Priti are both absolute self serving cunts.

Heard on the radio earlier that polling on this shows it's very popular with Tory voters.

No, not one single one - thankfully. But as @StoneofDestiny said, they’ve still handed £120m of taxpayers’ money to a government with a poor human rights record. So… that’s good.

Nigel Farage was on Radio 4 today saying the Human Rights Laws should be abandoned so we can get on 'doing Brexit'.

Actually I wonder if the government have an even more sinister plan with this.

Lose Rwanda court case on human rights grounds.
Argue this means we need to bin human rights act and withdraw from European Court of Human Rights (always hated by Tories and Tory press).
Voters cheer this idea to the rafters winning Tories next election.

The whole things is just weird.

I agree. LOOK OVER HERE SQUIRRELS.

Cynical, racist arseholes.

@StoneofDestiny

Nigel Farage was on Radio 4 today saying the Human Rights Laws should be abandoned so we can get on 'doing Brexit'.

Yes, I heard that interview! He was basically saying “yes, the people who we send to Rwanda will most likely get treated really badly - so we need to get rid of the human rights act so we can just leave them to it”.

I am not going to say this particular plan is a good idea but .... giving economic migrants a fraction of the money it costs to house them in miserable conditions in the UK, to set up lives and businesses elsewhere could be a good idea.

So if Rwanda is going to be so great at housing, feeding, employing these migrants with our money - what do we need to learn from them?

@StoneofDestiny

Scary we have just given £120 million to a dictatorship with a dire human rights record. This government has no shame.

I'm sure that the money will just disappear into a black hole like everything else and the tax payer will pay for the square root of fuck all as usual. Not that I support this scheme one bit.

I read somewhere that women, children and married men are not eligible to go.
So people say, well every man is going to say that he is married in that case!

My OH has fallen for this, he is very very left wing (too ideological) and falls for this nonsense every time. ITS A SMOKESCREEN