Posted on 11/15/2023 1:52:23 PM PST by RandFan
The government is introducing emergency legislation to mark Rwanda as a safe country, the prime minister says, after the UK Supreme Court ruled the flagship asylum policy was unlawful.
Rishi Sunak said the UK was working on a new treaty with Rwanda following the court's decision.
The treaty would protect against the removal of asylum seekers from Rwanda back to their home country, he said.
"We need to end the merry-go-round" of legal challenges, he added.
Legal heads are being scratched as to how the emergency legislation might work
Declaring a country safe is not the same as proving to a court that it genuinely is - as the Supreme Court has shown.
The controversial plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda and ban them from returning to the UK - which has already cost at least £140m - has been subject to court challenges since it was first announced by Boris Johnson in April 2022.
No asylum seeker has been sent to Rwanda. The first flight was scheduled to go in June 2022 but was cancelled after an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The latest ruling from the Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - determined that the plan in its current form was unlawful.
Addressing reporters at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Sunak said the new treaty and emergency legislation would address concerns and confirm Rwanda was a safe country.
The legal case against the policy hinges on the principle of "non-refoulement" - that a person seeking asylum should not be returned to their country of origin if doing so would put them at risk of harm - which is established under both UK and international human rights law.
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Sounds like a mess!
Isn’t Sunak the conservative entry into this 🤡 Clown party?
Sounds like the “Supreme Court” is filled with traitors who should be in the Tower of London right now awaiting their beheadings.
The best thing for Sunak to do is call elections and put his hapless government out of its misery. Labor will assuredly win, and then in 5 years maybe someone better than Sunak will have a chance.
When the people vote against what globalists want, they just manipulate the system to ignore it.
>Isn’t Sunak the conservative entry into this 🤡 Clown party?
Rishi Sunak, of -—— heritage, in charge of UK, theoretically conservative, in reality globalist / replacement-policy.
Leo Varadkar, of -—— heritage, in charge of Ireland, theoretically conservative, in reality globalist / replacement-policy.
Vivek Ramaswamy, of -—— heritage, wants to be in charge of USA, theoretically conservative, trying to bury his globalist past and endorsements.
One might draw some conclusion that the globalists have found a cadre of people with shallow roots in their host countries who will gladly act to supplant the host population and implement globalism, but that’d be some sort of ism and ist thing.
My suggestion would be the Falklands.
A UK Conservative politician is basically a Hillary Clinton in terms of policy.
“Globalist” thought is that the globalists can become 16 times richer by having US corporations have a worldwide market instead of just a US market with a mere 6% of the world’s population.
Reality is that the EU, China and other countries are not going to let US companies dominate.
The Labour Party is run Biden class idiots.
“19 for me, 1 for you...just be thankful I don’t take it all”
Scotland has lots of remote islands.
The asylum seekers would be very safe.
Why so? There was never much doubt that the Rwanda scheme was incompatible with ECHR commitments. The Court was simply confirming the obvious. The real question was not put to them, since it's not a matter for the courts: should the ECHR continue to be recognised by UK law?
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