The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[Wilf]

Apart from being racist and colonialist, deeply so, the whole scheme looks to have the same level of effectiveness as their Covid policy. I've been too splenetic to look at details, but it seems to me it will either amount to some kind of semi-permanent imprisonment in Rwanda or, as happened with the Israeli scheme, 80-90% of those deported ultimately moving on/escaping from Rwanda. An expensive and deeply horrible racist way of churning asylum seekers round the globe. And in that churn, they will still head for affluent western nations. A racist game of snakes and ladders.

The other thing is that 2/3 years on, the policy will be quietly shelved and the public accounts committee will be asking questions.

 

[likesfish]

its never going to work in my brief stint as a prison officer we failed to send a prisoner home who wanted to be deported!
let alone deport large numbers

 

[AverageJoe]

Why the fuck Rwanda? Is it because it's a desperately poor country, and can thus be persuaded to take people by dangling a bit of money?

Maybe this

 

[bluescreen]

Maybe this

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Presumably just one of many subsidiaries around the world? (Head Office is in Bangalore AFAIK) Not necessarily as sinister as it looks, unless you have more info...

ETA but you can bet someone will be making some money out of this somewhere.

 

[AverageJoe]

 

[AverageJoe]

My local Green Councillor popped it up on Facebook so I woukd have assumed that he would have fact checked it before he posted.

I know that Infosys is older than that registered date, but maybe they renamed or reregistered it. I don't know how these things work

 

[bluescreen]

My local Green Councillor popped it up on Facebook so I woukd have assumed that he would have fact checked it before he posted.

I know that Infosys is older than that registered date, but maybe they renamed or reregistered it. I don't know how these things work

It's normal for international companies to have local subsidiaries in any country where they trade. It would be interesting to know whether Infosys will be involved in any 'processing' of deportees, however.

 

[alex_]

It's normal for international companies to have local subsidiaries in any country where they trade. It would be interesting to know whether Infosys will be involved in any 'processing' of deportees, however.

I suspect you can find an Infosys company in nearly every country in the world

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[RedRedRose]

If the Rwanda scheme is not compliant with UN Convention on Refugees (1951) then what? It seems Australia has faced no consequence.

My gut feeling is that bad press, opposition from the general public and cost could bury this, but maybe that is wishful thinking.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Calamity1971]

She can't stop fucking smirking can she.

 

[RedRedRose]

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[teqniq]

Pretty fairly demolished here I reckon:

 

[SpookyFrank]

And May as home secretary was obsessed with deportation flights. To the point of chartering multiple aircraft at obscene cost just to get rid of one man.

If this is too much for her to stomach, that's saying something.

 

[Humberto]

Impossible to know how low they will sink any more with this nightmare as Home Secretary, a brazen liar as PM and a spiv as Chancellor.

 

[iveivan]

I didn’t realise that than plan was not just to send these refugees to Rwanda for processing. It’s actually to just send them to Rwanda and leave them there.

 

[Chilli.s]

I didn’t realise that than plan was not just to send these refugees to Rwanda for processing. It’s actually to just send them to Rwanda and leave them there.

Yeah thats it. All the things they have said about what it is turn out to be what it isnt.

 

[Pickman's model]

I didn’t realise that than plan was not just to send these refugees to Rwanda for processing. It’s actually to just send them to Rwanda and leave them there.

Didn't you read the articles which made this clear some days back?

 

[Pickman's model]

it's VISIT rwanda, not TRY TO SCRAPE A LIVING AFTER BEING DEPORTED TO RWANDA

iveivan eg this from Monday

 

[teqniq]

More lies from Patel:

 

[Humberto]

Israel has though according to this:

Rwanda’s previous involvement in receiving African deportees from Israel raises serious concerns over whether – even with the UK’s reported £20m funding – it has the resources or even willingness to host deportations.

Of about 4,000 people estimated to have been deported by Israel to Rwanda and Uganda under a “voluntary departure” scheme between 2014 and 2017, almost all are thought to have left the country almost immediately, with many attempting to return to Europe via people-smuggling routes.

A report by the International Refugee Rights Initiative interviewed a number of individuals who said they had been deported from Israel to Rwanda.

Testimonies collected by IRRI suggested “that the majority, if not all, are being smuggled out of the country by land to Kampala [in Uganda] within days of arriving in Kigali.

Rwanda: human rights fears in nation whose leader faces murder claims

Paul Kagame, president of nation where UK plans to send asylum seekers, accused of seeking to assassinate opponents

www.theguardian.com

 

[iveivan]

Didn't you read the articles which made this clear some days back?

I watched the news where they didn’t report it properly

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Israel has though according to this:

Rwanda: human rights fears in nation whose leader faces murder claims

Paul Kagame, president of nation where UK plans to send asylum seekers, accused of seeking to assassinate opponents

www.theguardian.com

And who can complain if their nation follows that beacon of humanity and compassion that is the Israeli state?

 

[stavros]

Israel has though according to this:

Rwanda: human rights fears in nation whose leader faces murder claims

Paul Kagame, president of nation where UK plans to send asylum seekers, accused of seeking to assassinate opponents

www.theguardian.com

I think Patel needs to head over there. Remember how well previous trips to Israel have gone.

 

[Pickman's model]

I watched the news where they didn’t report it properly

That's a no then

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

She can't stop fucking smirking can she.

Generally speaking, I disapprove of violence, but when I see her or Johnson smirk, I feel enraged, want to smack someone in the face.

 

[_Russ_]

What anyone?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Generally speaking, I disapprove of violence, but when I see her or Johnson smirk, I feel enraged, want to smack someone in the face.

I don't think anyone is more smackable in the face than Reece-Mogg TBF (though purely in a fantasy kind of way).

 

[iveivan]

That's a no then

But I have manners