The Home Office and UK government policy concerning asylum seekers/Rwanda deportations

[Dystopiary]

E2a there is also an as of yet, unsubstantiated rumour on Twitter that a civilian airline has agreed to the contract

Got sent this in an email from Freedom from Torture this morning:

Right now, it's being reported that the airline AirTanker are in talks with the government to fly refugees to Rwanda as part of their cruel cash for humans scheme.

This government's Rwanda scheme flies in the face of international law, the UK Supreme Court and common human decency. It's cruel, and it's wrong. We see the terror it's inflicting on survivors of torture every day in our therapy rooms.

In 2022, AirTanker ruled themselves out of being part of this scheme.

It's time for them to do the right thing again.

Tell AirTanker to rule themselves out NOW

https://secure.freedomfromtorture.org/page/147528/action/1

 

[existentialist]

Five precious lives, including that of a small child.

I think our government would take issue with "precious"

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

AirTanker

AIRTANKER SERVICES LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

AIRTANKER SERVICES LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Registered address at RAF Brize Norton. Nature of business includes non-scheduled passenger air transport.

 

[DownwardDog]

The two AirTanker "surge" A330s are already on lease to Jet2 for the summer so the a/c will probably be G-VYGK which is operated by AT on the BZZ - MPA route for the RAF. They could find another operator for the Falklands run easier than they can for the Kigali adventures.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well there's a thing. The Rwanda flights are not actually going to solve the small boats issue. Who knew?

Reckon I've come up with something better than hanging for mps, namely confiscating all electronic devices and putting them in small boats at dungeness and sending them over to France. And on the beaches at France sending them over - in the same boats - back to dungeness. Repeat as required.

 

[Chilli.s]

small boats to Grytviken

 

[brogdale]

The fucking state of these psychopaths

 

[Karl Masks]

If this were ever to succeed as a deterrent, it would have done so by now. In fact, for years refugees have been treated like shit. We all know it; yarl's wood anyone? These already extant conditions are no deterrent, so why would a ticket to another country?

 

[Storm Fox]

The fucking state of these psychopaths

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This is quite a long way down the road which gets you a non-tourist one-way visit to The Hauge.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

More evidence for when the whole shower of shit are put on trial for human rights abuses, massive corruption and breaking international law…
Tory scum

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[klang]

If this were ever to succeed as a deterrent, it would have done so by now. In fact, for years refugees have been treated like shit. We all know it; yarl's wood anyone? These already extant conditions are no deterrent, so why would a ticket to another country?

if an overcrowded dinghy across the channel at freezing temps is no a deterrent, maybe we should take a very stern look at our foreign policies.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

You know what would be a deterrent to crossing the Channel in an overcrowded dinghy?

A regularly run charter ferry carrying limited numbers safely and legally to a country with an asylum claim processing system fit for purpose.

 

[Pickman's model]

if an overcrowded dinghy across the channel at freezing temps is no a deterrent, maybe we should take a very stern look at our foreign policies.

 

[Pickman's model]

small boats to Grytviken

we have plans b through to z.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

A legal philosopher suggests this Act may not even be law at all:

Parliament passes bill declaring Rwanda safe – but can it really be called a law at all?

Like asking us to believe that 2+2=5, the bill requires decision makers to ignore documented fact and give legal priority to a fiction.

theconversation.com

 

[teqniq]

Just in case you needed any other reason to hate on CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary:

Ryanair CEO Says He’d ‘Happily’ Offer Rwanda Deportation Flights

 

[belboid]

Just in case you needed any other reason to hate on CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary:

Ryanair CEO Says He’d ‘Happily’ Offer Rwanda Deportation Flights

he says 'Rwandan' but he'd land the plane in Tanzania and tell them to make their own way for the last bit.

 

[brogdale]

Just in case you needed any other reason to hate on CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary:

Ryanair CEO Says He’d ‘Happily’ Offer Rwanda Deportation Flights

Potential Ratner moment, there.

 

[teqniq]

he says 'Rwandan' but he'd land the plane in Tanzania and tell them to make their own way for the last bit.

Not that I wouldn't put it past him to have the plane land in an adjacent country but nowhere in the piece does he say 'Rwandan'. I did a search.

 

[teqniq]

Potential Ratner moment, there.

Yes:

 

[brogdale]

Yes:
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What an absolute plum; the few £m they might make from rat-boy could be massively off-set by an effective boycott campaign

 

[klang]

'Winter'....
Late as always i see

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

"The UK government hasn’t approached Ryanair to carry out the flights" - they're utter cunts, but even the Home Office's cruelty has limits.

 

[belboid]

What an absolute plum; the few £m they might make from rat-boy could be massively off-set by an effective boycott campaign

only problem there is, I suspect almost everyone who might boycott already avoids the buggers like the plague

 

[brogdale]

only problem there is, I suspect almost everyone who might boycott already avoids the buggers like the plague

Maybe, but I know quite a few youngsters who've used them; folk who'd likely not take too kind a view of any collaborator corporation.

 

[Elpenor]

Could a 737 make it to Rwanda without a fuel stop? It doesn’t matter, this is just Oleary getting some more free publicity

 

[existentialist]

Could a 737 make it to Rwanda without a fuel stop? It doesn’t matter, this is just Oleary getting some more free publicity

No, typical range of a 737 is around 3,500 miles. Kigali is rather more than 4,000.

 

[teqniq]

Jesus H. Christ:

 

[Karl Masks]

Shame there isn't a clause that says if a Tory would cause serioues and irreversible harm he wouldn't be sent to Parliament. But there isn't. They are all this out of touch. Sunak's answer would have been even wrose given his distant relationship to even basic contrivances like debit cards.