Rishi Sunak’s plan to sidestep the Supreme Court’s judgment with a law declaring Rwanda safe was deservedly panned
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“The court said we couldn’t do it because Rwanda isn’t safe so we’re going to have a vote to say Rwanda *is* safe and then tell them and then they have to let us do it.”
Is that the plan? Have I got that right? Like sticking a Post-It note with ‘Dog’ written on it on your cat?— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) November 15, 2023
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Is that “foreign court” physically situated on Parliament Square, Westminster, directly opposite the Houses of Parliament? The same one that up to 2009 was literally based in Parliament itself when the House of Lords had appellate jurisdiction? ♂️ https://t.co/0RoRxGM3BM
— Karl Turner MP (@KarlTurnerMP) November 15, 2023
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So you’re going to get involved in a lengthy legal process and then just throw the whole steaming pile of poo at Starmer when you lose the election?
— Simon Harris – Man Behaving Dadly (THAT’S DADLY) (@simonharris_mbd) November 15, 2023
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He is going to be in for one hell of a shock when he finds out where the UK Supreme Court is based. https://t.co/C4TUyEQWQG
— Daniel Sohege (@stand_for_all) November 15, 2023
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A BRITISH court rules against the Rwanda plan because Rwanda isn’t safe for asylum-seekers.
The Tory far-right loons go nuts.
Sunak announces he will legislate to declare Rwanda is safe and a foreign court can’t stop him, so there.
What intensely stupid performative nonsense.— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) November 15, 2023
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– Rwanda is not safe.
– Oh yeah? Well I’m going to change UK law to say it is safe!
– The car is out of petrol.
– Oh yeah? Well I’m going to pull the needle over to say that it’s full!
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) November 15, 2023
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Just so I am clear… Sunak is changing the law so that Rwanda is a safe Country?
— Deborah Meaden (@DeborahMeaden) November 15, 2023
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If Sunak can pass legislation to declare Rwanda safe for refugees, surely he can come up with other emergency laws to say that climate change is no longer a problem, that there are no wars in Gaza, Syria or Sudan, and that Britain’s rivers are clean. Where’s the delay?
— HENRY MORRIS – MINISTER FOR COMMON SENSE (@mrhenrymorris) November 15, 2023
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Don’t want to be some kind of obvious-stater or anything, but legislating to say a country is ‘safe’ doesn’t actually make it safe. https://t.co/4ujXzavtES
— Fancy Brenda ️️⚧️ (they/she) (@SpillerOfTea) November 15, 2023
There remains an important question.
Hi @RishiSunak
If you're going to pass legislation saying Rwanda is a safe country, can you clarify why @LeeAndersonMP_ has been referring to it as a punishment for "lefty lawyers"? pic.twitter.com/UFGR3Qh8aM
— The Sun Apologies (@SunApology) November 15, 2023
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Joe Lycett had the best response to Suella Braverman’s Rwanda wheeze hitting the buffers
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