UK ministers acknowledge detention of asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda

Wanderer, 16 days ago

I don’t think the Rwanda plan is the will of the people at all.

I think the will of the people is that France is a safe country and that anyone trying to get across the channel illegally is an economic migrant and they should be pushed back with force if required. Anyone that makes it should be arrested and returned to their country of birth also by force if required.

The main issue with the Rwanda plan is that it isn’t big enough of a deterrent. People would much rather put everyone on some Scottish island for processing then send them home when required.

Flax_vert, 17 days ago

Weird how most people I talk to are for it or want harsher punishments

thehatfox, 17 days ago

The right-leaning people I know mostly think the Rwanda policy is performative and futile. They want stronger border controls but don’t seem convinced by this approach.

Opinion polls apparently put support for it at around ~40%, but that was only when the policy was still hypothetical.

Emperor, 17 days ago

Downing Street denied this. The prime minister’s press secretary said: “From our part there isn’t really a day to lose when people are dying in the Channel having been induced into boats by gangs.”

I love that they stop the blame train there when it’s the government that forced them to rely on gangs by not having a proper immigration policy in places and under-investing in the immigration service so claims can be processed quicker. They have, essentially, created this crisis then come up with a ridiculous “solution”.

“People are ultimately breaking into our country"

That phrase isn’t used in this article.

0x815, 16 days ago

“People are ultimately breaking into our country” isn’t used in the article.

The Guardian must have changed that. I copied and pasted the phrase from the article. (They also say now that Downing Street ‘denied this’ instead of ‘categorically denied this’, a minor edit).

I changed the title now.

Emperor, 16 days ago

Cheers. It’s weird that they’d remove it as it is suitably bizarre.

0x815, 16 days ago

Yeah, it would be interesting to know why the Guardian did it.

Emperor, 16 days ago

If you Google it, you find a number of news articles (and us) and those pieces have all had the phrase removed. Something has gone wrong somewhere - it might be they were scammed by a fake Home Office spokesperson.