Thursday, June 16, 2022

An awful policy and an awful Prime Minister

This video describes an awful policy being implemented by an awful Prime Minister: Why has Rwanda agreed to receive unwanted asylum seekers? Inside Story/Aljazeera English 06/14/2022.


I do want to mention that from my knowledge of the EU-Turkey refugee agreement of 2016, despite its real problems and limitations, is not meaningfully comparable to this disgusting Britain-Rwanda deal, which is suggested at one point in the video. (On the EU-Turkey agreement, see: Ozan Serdaroglu, The Turkey-EU migration agreement was effective. No longer Middle East Eye 04/30/2022.

UK’s bid to export some refugees to Rwanda, ‘all wrong’, says UN refugee chief UN News 06/13/2022

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party now seem to be firmly in the "radicalized conservative" category. And getting worse: George Parker et al, Boris Johnson pushes ahead with UK law to rip up N Ireland protocol Financial Times 06/13/2022.

For a couple of further references on Johnson's radicalism, see: Dan Sabbagh, Cultivating conspiracy: how Boris Johnson amplified the far right Guardian 02/08/2022; Tom McTague, What Is the Point of Boris Johnson? The Atlantic 12/10/2021.

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