British Home Secretary Priti Patel (L) addresses a press conference with Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta (R) during a signing ceremony regarding a migration and economic development partnership between the UK and Rwanda in Kigali, Rwanda. | EUGENE UWIMANA
I had to pinch myself the other-day when I read that Britain was planning to send asylum seekers to Africa. I thought it was a late April Fools joke in very bad taste. But no Prime Minister Boris Johnson is serious. If you are picked-up trying to cross the Channel illegally you get a one-way ticket to Rwanda courtesy of the British government. This from a country which was once known for its fairplay. What worries me is that a sizeable section of the British public appears to support the move, or at least according to one poll in a pro-Johnson newspaper.
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Tranq. British history and being internationalist brought about the ethnicity mix in the U.K.. Those in parliament the media and professions are children from the people of the now commonwealth that migrated to the U.K. posts war and genuine refugees from say Uganda Iraq Zimbabwe who have integrated and prospered in the U.K. society. The traditional version of ethnic white Anglo Saxon “they where quite ethnically mixed actually” being the norm is outdated in the U.K.. it’s more a mindset or identity of what is Britishness. What is obvious though is at 67million population growth in the U.K. cannot continue as is. In my adult life 45yrs increased population of 17million
The difference David is that the UK is no longer an Anglo-Saxon country. Now how did that happen ?
This U.K. problem is as Brett implies a result of lax controls in France where these poor people unregistered and unregulated living in squalor in the Calais jungle. Then at great monetary cost to themselves trafficked to the promise of the U.K. dream. The truck trade has been restricted by the disaster in the fridge trailer and the Vietnamese people’s deaths. And the reduction of the Ireland trucks using the land bridge and the using the direct sea route. To break the lie of traffickers this outcome needs to immerse itself in the mindset of economic migrant and hopefully kill this trade. The inference that the conservatives are moving right whatever that is implied racists look at the U.K. front benches and compare with other European Parliament spot the difference
African economic migrants getting sent back to Africa, hmmm can't see the problem. Left wing do gooders should shut their stupid traps. The same people who support reparations for taking slaves from Africa are moaning that we are putting people back in Africa 🤷♂️
Brett - Rwanda is the 'up and coming African nation' that the UK government condemned for human rights abuses just last year, including raping and torturing immigrants. The UK government is a total disgrace.
First of all, you have to distinguish between illegal migrants, (economic migrants) and genuine asylum seekers. UK has said it will accept genuine asylum seekers once proved they are genuine. Secondly you make no mention of France from where most come from to take advantage of UK's less stringent social security. Why should France bear no responsibility? Thirdly, Rwanda is an up and coming African nation which can do with some financial incentive to better themselves and at the same time be humanitarian in giving these migrants a new start. I am really tired of your UK Tory government bashing with one-sided reporting.