Showing posts with label rwanda refugee deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rwanda refugee deal. Show all posts

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.