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Ruin of Rwanda plan means Suella Braverman would have had to go anyway

Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak: they’ve already fallen out, but the fallout over their Rwanda deportation plan could tip their whole party into the mire.

Oh, what a tangled web.

After Suella Braverman achieved her dream of being sacked from a Cabinet post by Rishi Sunak – important for her to position herself as a future Tory leader candidate – the Supreme Court has ruled that her plan to deport (let’s call them) unexpected migrants to Rwanda is unlawful.

This was the keystone of Braverman’s immigration policy, and it means she would probably have had to leave her post anyway.

And it makes her letter to Rishi Sunak – published to the world yesterday – even more comical than it was already.

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This Writer particularly enjoyed Owen Jones’s YouTube-borne take on it:

The letter was published in full on ‘X’ – and has prompted hilarity from all sides:

Still, we already knew she’s been living in la-la land:

This is interesting, though:

With the Supreme Court’s ruling on Rwanda, Sunak now has a reason to respond to Braverman – not from a position of strength, exactly, but certainly passing blame for the policy off onto her (despite it being a Conservative government plan).

For the record:

The Supreme Court said the government lost on more than just human rights law, meaning claims by right-wingers that the UK could avoid legal pitfalls by leaving the European Court of Human Rights (which we helped found) are not true.

Apparently three laws ban the UK from sending genuine refugees to Rwanda because of the risk they could be further returned to countries from which they have fled.

Sunak is now saying he is “prepared to change our laws” if necessary – but this could plunge him into a legal quagmire of unexpected consequences.

He can blame Braverman for failing to anticipate and neutralise the Court’s ruling, but he needs to accept that he cannot take the Rwanda policy any further forward – no matter how much pressure is put on him by his party’s right-wingers.

The Rwanda deportation policy has failed. It has cost the public £140 million without a single plane leaving the ground. Sunak needs to stop paying out fortunes on policies that are worthless.

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Deporting people from foreign countries is not new – but it shows we are regressing

The Empire Windrush: the people brought to the UK on this ship in 1948, the Chinese deported back to that country two years before, and Afghan asylum-seekers who face death trying to cross the English Channel are all victims of the same primitive racism.

It’s always sad to see proof that a country is evolving backwards – especially when that country is your own.

That’s exactly what This Writer saw, watching an old BBC documentary series called Mixed Britannia.

It showed me that the current fervour for shipping people of foreign extraction who have been re-defined (take careful note of that: re-defined) as “undesirables” out of the UK (destination: anywhere) is a regression to the attitudes of more primitive times.

In the series, the late George Alagiah relates what he describes as the “shameful” episode in which people who were originally from China but had settled in Liverpool, some having married local women, were separated from their families in a night-time raid, thrown onto a ship and sent directly back to their country of origin.

Their labour had previously been welcomed but then it was considered no longer to be needed and racist law-makers dispensed with their services, with extreme prejudice.

Their wives and children were not told the truth about what had happened; they were left to believe they had been deserted by their husbands.

This happened under the otherwise-progressive Labour government of Clement Attlee; it should perhaps serve as a warning to us all that we should be careful not to view history through rose-tinted glasses, or any other distorting prism.

Mr Alagiah went on to show how attitudes had improved over the decades leading to 2011, when Mixed Britannia was made.

Hindsight renders it ironic that he referred to the arrival of the Empire Windrush, packed with passengers from the West Indies who had been promised UK citizenship in return for their help in rebuilding our then-war-torn nation, as a great step forward that happened only a few years later.

Today, the Windrush Scandal is one of the deepest scars on the face of the Conservative administration of 2010 onwards; documentation proving the right of the Windrush generation to live in the UK was deliberately destroyed and people who’d had every right to believe they were UK citizens were forced through a deportation process that was entirely unwarranted, unfair, and illegal. The Tories have yet to make full restitution to those they wronged.

Today we live overlooking the river of blood (to adopt a phrase) that used to be the English Channel – where refugees and asylum-seekers place their lives in the hands of criminal gangs because they have no safe, legal route to claim asylum in the UK; the Tories have closed them all off and say anybody trying to make the crossing is coming here illegally.

Does that include people from Afghanistan who worked as employees of the UK government and its forces there for 20 years after the post- 911 invasion, as implied by this social media post about the people who died or were rescued in the tragedy that happened on August 12:

“Their labour had previously been welcomed but then it was considered no longer to be needed and racist law-makers dispensed with their services, with extreme prejudice.”

It fits, doesn’t it?

Remember: The current Conservative government has deliberately dismantled the UK’s immigration and asylum system in order to make it impossible to properly process people coming to these shores to claim asylum.

They have done this in order to fool you into thinking that our borders are being overrun by foreigners who have no reason to come here.

They believe they need to put a fake enemy in front of you because otherwise you will realise that the only real enemy you have is the current Conservative government.

At the time of writing, Mixed Britannia may be viewed via the BBC iPlayer here.

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The Tories are lying about asylum-seekers with an old trick

Symbol of hate: the Tory government doesn’t want any asylum-seekers to stay in the UK, so ministers are coming up with bizarre and cruel excuses to get rid of them. Bibby Stockholm – the cramped, firetrap, disease-ridden prison barge the Tories hired to house them at great expense – has become the symbol of this cruelty.

Oh look – the Conservative government is cooking the books; lying about the number of people who have arrived in the UK in search of asylum.

According to The Guardian, Stephen Kinnock of the Starmer Party accused the Conservatives of “artificially withdrawing claims” if someone misses an appointment.

“It doesn’t mean they’ve been processed, it just puts people into limbo. Then essentially people are just slipping into the underground economy,” Kinnock said.

More than 6,000 people have been wiped off the list without being fully assessed in just three months, for reasons such as failing to attend interviews or appointments, and not filling in new fast-track questionnaires.

Is this a revival of an old Tory trick – cutting off support with a false claim about the people they are affecting?

We can check this by asking a few questions: Do they even receive notification to attend these interviews? Do any of you remember when the Department for Work and Pensions was cancelling benefit claims by disabled people and those with long-term ilnesses, claiming that they had missed appointments – of which, it later transpired, they had never been informed?

I think the government would need to prove these people had been aware that an appointment had been made and that they needed to attend, before taking any action.

I wonder if anybody will bother to find out.

Then there’s this:

On this, at least, we have a little guidance on what will happen.

According to Bing‘s friendly AI: “The immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, has said that if you decline the accommodation that’s provided, such as a barge, then we will consider removing your asylum support and that individual will ultimately have to fend for themselves.”

What does this mean? “The government begins the process of removing the asylum seeker from the UK. Some are offered money to leave voluntarily.”

So in other words, if people refuse to board a ship that has been condemned as a firetrap by the Fire Brigades Union and has been found to be full of Legionnaire’s Disease, they will be deported – presumably back to France.

We knew that the aim of Tory policy is to clear anybody who seeks asylum in the UK out of this country, no matter what their reason for coming here.

The more we discover about their methods, the lower our opinion of them must fall.

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Rwanda judgment: the Law has ruled. Why won’t Rishi Sunak accept the Rule of Law?

Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak: by refusing to accept the Court of Appeal’s judgment on Rwanda deportations, they are denying the Rule of Law. Right?

Once again, for the Tory government: this is awkward.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda will be unlawful, because that country’s assurances that it would not return them to countries where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment are not “sufficient”.

The decision follows a ruling by the High Court that the government’s policy of deporting some asylum-seekers to Rwanda was permissible. An appeal had been launched against the decision by a group of 10 asylum-seekers and the charity Asylum Aid.

Normally, that should be that.

But the Tory government is not accepting this legal ruling and is demanding that it should be taken to the Supreme Court.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has claimed that the “system is rigged against the British people”.

And Rishi Sunak published a statement online as follows:

Your government should decide who comes here, not “criminal gangs”? Is he suggesting the Court of Appeal is a “criminal gang”? It’s one interpretation of his words!

(In fact, if he disobeys the court’s order, it is Sunak and his government who will be the criminals.)

“Rwanda is a safe country,” he said. This is not true, according to the law.

And his claim that it is this country that should decide who comes here is easily countered. This decision is not about who comes here, but about whether anybody should go to Rwanda. And the answer is nobody.

And now the public purse will have to stump up the exorbitant cost of another court hearing, because this spoilt, petulant man-child and his demonic lieutenant are determined to have their own way. How contemptible.

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Suella Braverman: wrong on crime, wrong on Rwanda, wrong on her own expenses

Suella Braverman: it all seems to be beyond her capabilities – her job, her expenses… everything.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s appearances on the Sunday morning political shows really were a plane crash, weren’t they?

She was wrong on sex offences in the UK, blaming “British Pakistani grooming gangs” for the majority when, as Angela Rayner pointed out last week, 300 rapes are committed every day – mostly by white men – and Braverman’s police officers turn a blind eye:

And isn’t this response pertinent?

Jeffrey Epstein may be described as the “groomer to the powerful”. Who did he supply with youngsters for sex? Why can’t the facts be told? Who is being protected?

Meanwhile, on Laura Kuennsberg’s show, Braverman insisted that Rwanda is a safe country to which our refugees can be sent. Is it, though?

She told Kuennsberg seven million people in the UK are out of work; in fact, official figures show the number to be much lower – just 1,253,000.

And finally, while all this has been going on, it seems she’s another Tory who won’t get her expenses claim right:

It seems she

claimed almost £25,000 in expenses over five years to pay for her energy usage and other costs, while living rent-free at her parent’s house during visits to her constituency.

Such financial aids were created to prevent MPs who live outside of London from falling into debt while running two homes, however an investigation by the Mirror found that Ms Braverman uses them to cover the household bills on her £1.2million family home in Bushey, Herts.

Although her expenses do not go against the rules, the hardline Tory has been accused of taking advantage of loophole in the system.

Ms Braverman, who earns £67,505 on top of her MP salary of £84,144, told watchdogs she “fully funds” the home she stays at in Fareham, Hants. However, she failed to explain that the house is actually her parents’ – meaning she stays there rent-free.

Apparently that massive Ministerial salary isn’t enough for her – even though she’s clearly incapable of doing the job properly.

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Rwanda refugee deal is reciprocal: the UK should take people from there. But will it?

Suella Braverman in Rwanda: she can send people there, but if that country’s government invokes the part of the deal in which it sends people to the UK, it seems she’ll renege on it.

It’s good to know that Suella Braverman will lie in the face of the facts during a TV interview when she is confronted with them.

BBC reporters have examined the deal by which the UK gets to send refugees to Rwanda, and it is reciprocal; Rwanda will be able to send people to this country in return.

But when Braverman – who is the UK’s Home Secretary, remember – was confronted with this, she flatly denied that it would happen:

Notice that she didn’t say it wasn’t a part of the deal.

It seems likely, therefore, that the UK will renege on the deal, should Rwanda try to invoke that part of it.

What then? An international incident?

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Boris Johnson is even out-of-step with his fellow Tories on Rwanda deportation policy

Boris Johnson took a break from making £5 million (by now) from extra-curricular activities to make a rare return to his actual job – being an MP.

He revisited Parliament to attack Labour MPs for refusing to back his hare-brained scheme to send migrants to Rwanda, after they come across the Channel in boats to get to the UK.

And Home Secretary Suella Braverman joined him in calling on Labour to “back control over our borders and back the British people”.

But the plan doesn’t even have the full support of Conservatives in Parliament, as Tory Caroline Nokes made abundantly clear on the BBC’s Politics Live.

Watch her describe the whole policy as an “expensive white elephant”:

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Tory MP says bishops should stop ‘preaching from the pulpit’. What does he think they do for a living?

The so-called “House of Commons hooligan” Jonathan Gullis, Tory MP for Stoke-on-Trent North since 2019, has made another of his famously misguided attacks – this time at bishops in the House of Lords.

His outburst came after all the Anglican bishops in the Upper House said the Tory government’s Rwanda deportation policy, which was endorsed as “lawful” by the High Court earlier this week, should “shame us as a nation”.

They signed a letter saying, “The shame is our own, because our Christian heritage should inspire us to treat asylum-seekers with compassion, fairness and justice, as we have for centuries.”

In fairness, even the Home Office seems to have accepted that many of those who arrive in the UK by illegal routes still have a claim for asylum; the majority of them are accepted as genuine refugees and are permitted to remain in the UK.

The problem lies in the fact that they have to take illegal routes – making them prey for the Tory government’s deportation policy – because there are no legal routes; the Tories have closed them all off in order to be able to pursue this inhumane mistreatment of people who are already victims.

Gullis’s response may be found here:

So: first he flung some whataboutery into the ether, claiming that the Church should be dealing with abuse claims against its own clergy. How does he know that it isn’t? And isn’t that more a problem for the Catholic clergy?

Then he said: “Too many people are using the pulpit to preach from.” Does he not know that preaching is exactly what the pulpit is for?

This man used to be a teacher but gave up when he was elected into Parliament. He said pupils at the school where he had been working were “probably happy to see me go” – perhaps because they were already better-educated than he was?

He also said the bishops were unelected. Correct – but everybody has an understanding of what constitutes fairness and justice, and nobody needs to be elected to put forward their opinion of what that is.

Furthermore, these are people who sit as experts on law and political matters in the Upper House of Parliament, and their words have weight whether Gullis likes it or not.

Instead of spouting ignorant nonsense, he should learn respect – not just for the bishops who have far more experience and understanding than he does, but also for the people his policies are victimising.

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Tory Rwanda deportation policy is lawful, says High Court. So what?

Suella Braverman: this is an archive image but you can bet she’s happy now.

The Tory government’s plan to send people who have arrived in the UK by illegal means to Rwanda is lawful, and the administration acted rationally in arranging the deal with that country – according to the High Court.

Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, is treating it as a major victory, saying she will move ahead with the policy as soon as possible.

But how soon is that?

Well…

First, the courts will have to deal with any appeals against this decision. That process will begin in January.

Then, there could be a challenge to the Supreme Court, depending on whether there is concern over the interpretation of any points of law.

Furthermore, the High Court has ruled that more care needs to be taken in the judgement of each case, meaning that many candidates – if they may be described that way – for deportation to start a new life in Rwanda may be found unsuitable for it.

And finally, any who are sentenced to go may try to petition the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to have the ruling overturned.

So Braverman has been careful not to suggest that any flight will take place soon.

Meanwhile, opponents of the policy have been condemning it from all sides.

Labour’s Yvette Cooper said the policy remains “unworkable, extortionate and deeply damaging”, and “risks making trafficking worse”.

Alison Thewlis for the SNP said the police was “deeply immoral”, saying people “fleeing war, famine and oppression deserve and need our full support”.

And there were more:

Clare Moseley, founder of refugee charity Care4Calais, called the decision on Monday “disappointing”.

She said: “People who have suffered the horrors of war, torture and human rights abuses should not be faced with the immense trauma of deportation to a future where we cannot guarantee their safety.”

Josie Naughton, chief executive of migrant charity Choose Love, said the ruling “flies in the face of international commitments and accountability”, adding that campaigners will “continue to fight” for the “human right to seek asylum”.

James Wilson, deputy director of Detention Action, said: “We are disappointed that the High Court has found the removal of refugees to an autocratic state which tortures and kills people is lawful. However, we will fight on.

“The Rwanda policy is brutal and harmful and we will now consider an appeal against today’s judgment.”

It seems clear that the jubilation from the Tories is premature.

The Tories may be kicked out of government before this controversial policy reaches any kind of fruition at all.

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Suella Braverman presents as a racist. Is Liz Truss really determined to keep her?

We need to talk about Suella.

This daughter of a Kenyan family who came to the UK as refugees has spoken of her “dream” to deport her family’s fellow refugees to an internment camp in Rwanda without conducting any checks on whether they deserve to remain in the UK or not.

If you can stomach it, you might be interested in watching her speech at the Conservative Party conference earlier in the week:

She has sparked a huge amount of commentary – of course:

Professor Tim Wilson points out: “We cannot deport people until our paperwork and theirs is properly processed. And hospitality to the disadvantaged runs through our civilisation. We ignore that at our peril. Yes, there will be cheats who take advantage of our goodness but we cannot allow them- the miscreants- to dictate our behaviour and our policy! I have difficulty understanding how this policy was conceived but I cannot understand how we can be represented by someone so callous and brutal that she DREAMS of such toxic brutality?”

Here’s his video comment:

Here’s Novara Media’s take on it:

It was discussed on the BBC’s Politics Live today (October 6):

Clearly the views put forward by this Parliamentarian are abhorrent to large numbers of people on all sides of the political spectrum.

Yet Liz Truss – who has admitted that she doesn’t mind being unpopular – is determined to keep Braverman in post to push through legislation that will make this inhumane (some might say inhuman) policy workable.

Truss also reversed her policy to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax because it was unpopular, though, so it seems we cannot trust her word.

Is she planning to pull the usual Tory trick – ditch the unpopular politician but keep the unpopular policy she champions?

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