In an attempt to live up to its promise to Britons after myriad broken promises, the Rishi Sunak government is headed back to court to rescue the failed Rwanda scheme, which was formulated during the tenure of Boris Johnson as prime minister. The UK government will try to overturn a ruling which declared it “unlawful to deport to Rwanda asylum seekers who arrive in small boats across the Channel.” Nigel Farage had declared the plan “doomed at the start,” since “leftie lawyers” would sabotage such efforts. And lo and behold, these leftist lawyers will be again attempting to sabotage the plan.
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman is warning that a “hurricane of migrants” is headed to the UK, which will only exacerbate the ongoing and unsustainable crisis.
“UK’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda heads to top court,” by Michael Holden and Andrew Macaskill, Reuters, October 5, 2023:
LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The British government will try next week to persuade judges at the country’s top court to overturn a ruling which declared unlawful its divisive plan to deport to Rwanda asylum seekers who arrive in small boats across the Channel.
In a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government and his pledge to “stop the boats”, London’s Court of Appeal concluded in June the scheme to send tens of thousands of migrants more than 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to East Africa was not lawful, saying Rwanda could not be treated as a safe third country.
On Monday, government lawyers will argue at the Supreme Court this ruling was wrong, while those representing migrants from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam and Sudan want the judges to conclude the scheme itself is flawed.
The stakes for Sunak are high, as he has made dealing with immigration one of his five priorities. Successfully addressing the issue could revive his Conservative Party’s ailing fortunes as it languishes some 20 points behind in opinion polls ahead of an election expected next year.
“A government that doesn’t deliver on what you promised will always get punished. We need to get a grip on this issue,” Conservative lawmaker Brendan Clarke-Smith told Reuters at the party’s annual conference this week.
Sunak and his ministers argue that the Rwanda scheme, launched last year by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, would smash the business model of human traffickers, and deter people from the perilous cross-Channel journey in inflatable boats and dinghies. Six people drowned in August while 27 perished in November 2021……
John Allan says
Err, they’re ILLEGALS … as in: they are in the UK ILLEGALLY!
As far as Sunak and the government is concerned, it’s to the British electorate that the ministers are ultimately responsible!
NOT to the COURTS!
NH Storbeck says
Correct. The judiciary do NOT govern this country, thats why we have elected governments.
Wellington says
The rapid descent of the UK continues. Ditto for most of the West, easily the greatest civilization in history but it is being eradicated quick-like in our time.
Since the 1960’s the descent of the West continues and it bodes ill not only for the West but for all of mankind because no civilization or society explored the dimensions of liberty and equality under the law such as the West has. The West also has exhibited (actually too much) a capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings and thereafter attempt to create a better West and a better world. When has China, the Islamic world, the sub-Saharan African sphere of mankind, the American Indian world, et al. ever, yes EVER, apologized for its wrongdoings?
Apologies are one thing but self-flagellation to the point of societal suicide is another. The West has been exploring the latter for more than half a century and we can see the results and they’re not encouraging; indeed they are suicidal.
NH Storbeck says
Good comment and right to the point. Thank you Wellington.
Scotsman48 says
What has Rwanda done to be told to accept a bunch of men that have no regard for anybody.
If the UK Government can round them up and send them all to a small poor East African Nation then why not round them up and send them ALL back to where they came from in the first place but better yet stop them from coming at all.
Shoot the Boats in the Channel and the Med, sink them with all on board and then, and only then, will these savage invaders learn that we mean business and until that day they will come and demand we house them feed them treat them in hospitals and hand them money otherwise they will call us nasty names.
The UK-EU-US-CND have all become lead by weak willed morons that do not understand that muslims see a lack of response as a weakness as revenge is an important part of their Fascist Religious Cult.