As there's an election tomorrow the tories have pursuaded ONE asylum seaker to go to Rwanda
The guy is from Rwanda anyway, didn't come here in a boat anyway and was due to go home to Rwanda anyway soon
But the government (so , that's us) gave him £3000 spending money to persuade him to go now (cos there's an election tomorrow and it'll look good in the Mail)
Absolute joke
After Brexit I have lost confidence in some voters ability to see through this deportation and the attack on the mentally ill. I defy anyone to defend the notion that Brexit was based on wholesale lying and a right wing media frenzy. So while I hope people can see through it I have my doubts.
The film footage that they released today showed a man in handcuffs so I presume he turned down the 3 grand and a free flight to a new life in Rwanda.
What's as equally depressing as the footage is the fact that they calculate that that's the kind of thing that will get them votes.
Their whole stategy is predicated on this - in an attempt to get as many Reform voters back - so that their loss is slightly less disastrous.
Pretty cold.
Or perhaps they don't want 1000 illegals entering every week draining resources.
If that was their aim they would process them properly, and staff the Home Office properly.
Or maybe set up processing in Calais - as offered by the French.
The guy carted off today may well have a right to be here - he is an asylum seeker who's case has not been investigated, so we will never know.
As I said, pretty cold.
" A civil service trade union is taking the government to court over its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
The Safety of Rwanda Act, aimed at reviving the plan to deport some asylum seekers to the east African country, was passed into law last week.
Under the Act, a minister can ignore an order made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The FDA union says a direction to do this would breach international law, in conflict with the civil service code."
There goes the woke left brigade refusing to break the law again
They've lost half the people to be detained anyway, they're missing - god knows where
Utter shambles
I thought the civil service was there to carry out the wishes of MP's?
Constant delaying tactics with them and lawyers so that lefties can have their cake and eat it.
'Oh it's cruel to send them to Rwanda, the right are so cruel'
We'll do everything to stop it.
Then
'the government are f**king about, nobody has gone to Rwanda - they're a shambles'
Not if those wishes break international law
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 2nd May 2024, 7:43 AMI thought the civil service was there to carry out the wishes of MP's?
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Perhaps they're a little wary of having to rely on the old "We were only following orders" defence?
It hasn't exactly worked too well in the past.
I will be using my new bus pass as voter ID today as I look quite determined in the photo and I hope that comes across to the people checking it.
The "Disabled people are all liars and benefit cheats" bounce for the Tories
@YouGov
4m
Tory vote share now lower than under Liz Truss in our latest VI (30 Apr - 1 May)
Con: 18% (-2 from 23-24 Apr)
Lab: 44% (-1)
Reform UK: 15% (+2)
Lib Dem: 10% (+1)
Green: 8% (+1)
SNP: 2% (-1)
18% !!!
P.s. don't forget your voter ID today
P.p.s Tory MP Tom Hunt doesn't have any valid ID so is unable to vote
Gerrymandering backfire !
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 2nd May 2024, 9:46 AMI will be using my new bus pass as voter ID today as I look quite determined in the photo and I hope that comes across to the people checking it.
They might give you an extra vote if you ask nicely.
This may come as a shock to some but I am quite a pleasant person to deal with even when taking part in a sham ID set up designed to hamper voting and rig an election.
"Adam Diver@AdamDiver2
1h
I'm not one for complaining but I am gutted! I spent 27 years in the Army and today I was going to vote in my local elections. I was sadly turned away at the door as my Veteran ID was not allowed as formal ID. "
Absolute joke
Hopefully this will be the last local elections under the Tories for at least ten years
Labour should scrap this unneeded voter ID horse shit ASAP
Deterant??
More than 700 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in a single day - a new record for the year so far.
The Home Office said 711 people made the journey in 14 boats on Wednesday, suggesting an average of 51 people per boat.
It takes the provisional total for the number of arrivals this year so far to 8,278.
Channel crossings had already hit a new record high for the first four months of a calendar year, and the latest figures show they have now jumped 34% on 2023 when 6,192 were recorded and are up 19% on the total at this stage in 2022 (6,945).
Last year 29,437 migrants arrived in the UK, down 36% on a record 45,774 arrivals in 2022.
Since the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act became law after receiving Royal Assent on Thursday last week, 1,611 migrants have made the journey in 32 boats.