"It was only ever supposed to be one of Boris Johnson's half-arsed wheezes, a clever little culture war trick to sound hard and hateful without any functional element to deliver it. Now, hopeless moral vacuity that he is, Sunak has pinned all his hopes to this plan. His entire election platform rests on this pisspoor little piece of moral brutalism, this theatrical act of cruelty."

#RwandaBill
#ToryIncompetence

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/rwanda-a-day-of-shame?r=7a95h&triedRedirect=true

Rwanda: A day of shame

A national obscenity and an affront to our better nature.

^{Ian Dunt (Striking 13)}

"Hey guys! We're going to be voting on sending vulnerable people to an unsafe country in defiance of international law at a cost that's so high it would be cheaper to buy each one a house in central London so we'll have a piss-up before the vote, yah!"

#RwandaBill
#TheNastyParty
#ToryIncompetence
#ToriesOut

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-mps-rwanda-vote-office_uk_662690bbe4b04378c08b01a6

'Devoid Of Humanity': Sunak Hosts Drinks For Tory MPs Ahead Of Late-Night Rwanda Vote

Opponents hit out at "jovial celebratory drinks" as PM looks to end back-and-forth over deportation plan.

^{Graeme Demianyk (HuffPost UK)}

Today is St. George's Day and I'm frankly ashamed to be English, and I'm ashamed of what our country had become under the cruel leadership of the Tories.

In addition to being ashamed, I'm also pretty angry. I hope the Tories are obliterated at the next election. Every single Tory MP who has voted for this legislation, and has pretended that there are safe and legal routes to claim asylum in the UK, deserves to burn in the fires of hell for all eternity, as far as I'm concerned.

Guardian: UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/rwanda-deportations-bill-passes-parliament-sunak

#RwandaBill
#RwandaNotInMyName
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry

Sunak’s Rwanda deportations bill will become law after peers back down

Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa

^{Rajeev Syal (The Guardian)}