Keir Starmer has cracked open the door to sending migrants to Albania instead of Rwanda, saying he’s “interested” in Italy’s processing scheme. The Telegraphhas more.
Giorgia Meloni reached a deal last year to open two migrant processing centres in the Balkan nation where the claims of 36,000 migrants will be processed each year. The first of the migrant centres will open this autumn after several months’ delay.
Sir Keir said he was “interested” to see how the scheme would work, and said he wanted to discuss Ms. Meloni’s “strong opinions” on migration and how they could help the U.K. deal with its small boats crisis.
Over the past year, the number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy has fallen from 118,000 to 44,500, a decrease of 62%.
Under Italy’s scheme, migrants whose asylum claims are rejected will be returned to their home country while those accepted will be admitted into Italy. Under the Rwanda scheme, they would have been deported there. …
On Sunday night, he will fly out to Rome to meet Ms. Meloni for the second time since his election victory.
Asked about the Albanian scheme, Sir Keir said: “Let’s see. It’s in early days, I’m interested in how that works, I think everybody else is.”
He said he had already had a preliminary discussion with Ms. Meloni about “how we can work together on irregular migration”.
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Heretic
6 months ago
So during Starmer’s 50 days in power, he’s found time to fly to Rome to meet Ms. Meloni twice, since they don’t have telephones or internet there (?). Yes, her “strong opinions” about immigration were all talk and no action for her first years in office, during which Third World Invaders continued to swarm in.
She’s very popular with foreign leaders, like the Ugandan military commander Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who offered her a dowry of 100 cows to marry him, or else he would invade Italy.
Now that Germany is offering to send its own Third World Invaders to take up residence in the Rwandan accommodation built by British Taxpayers, does that mean Germany will refund our £700 million for that?
What is truly astonishing, is this all-but-forgotten admission by Lord Peter Mandelson eleven years ago, in the article referenced by Mogwai elsewhere:
“In a stunning confirmation that the Blair and Brown governments deliberately engineered mass immigration, the former Cabinet Minister and spin doctor said New Labour sought out foreign workers.
He also conceded that the influx of arrivals meant the party’s traditional supporters are now unable to find work.”
“When Labour encouraged new arrivals ‘WE WERE ALMOST … A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY’ but, he admitted: ‘The situation is different obviously now.
‘We have to just realise… entry to the labour market of many people of non-British origin is hard for people who are finding it very difficult to find jobs, who find it hard to keep jobs.'”
Let that sink in…
“WE WERE ALMOST…A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY.” (!!!)
“WE WERE ALMOST…A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY.” (!!!)
“WE WERE ALMOST…A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY.” (!!!)
“how we can work together on irregular migration”.
You can firk right off with that lie Kneel. And he is lying. Irregular suggests something slightly amiss. We are suffering from illegal immigration ie the perps are breaking the law. There is nothing amiss just plainly illegal. And of course the illegal immigrants are being imported not battling their way across the busiest shipping lane in the world on a home-made raft tied together with bits of string.
Agreed – this word ‘irregular’ hacks me off. IMO nudge language.
in the prison I worked with we had a number of sex offenders found guilty of particularly ‘irregular’ behaviour.
Actually Hux, illegal immigration isn’t a fraction of a broken crisp in an extra large bag. May’s insane legal immigration Bill is the problem which says anybody can bring their extended family with them, particularly students. Why does a Student need his Mom, Dad, Sisters, Brothers and Aunties and Grannies here? He’s a Student for heavens sakes!
They can only stay a certain length of time though. I think their visitor visas last 3 months max. It’s the same here. Lots of expats have their parents visit from far away countries and they can stay 12 weeks before they must return.
Mogwai
6 months ago
On the topic of Italy, deputy PM Matteo Salvini learns next month if he’s going to get sent to prison for defending his country by preventing a boat-load of illegals who snubbed Spain because they wanted to disembark in Lampedusa instead, but he was having none of it;
”Matteo Salvini, Italy’s right-wing deputy prime minister, is hitting back after Italian prosecutors requested on Saturday a six-year prison sentence against him for blocking migrants from disembarking at one of the country’s ports in 2019. Salvini, a partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition, is on trial for alleged “deprivation of liberty and abuse of office” for preventing the Lampedusa landing of the Open Arms ship run by a Spanish NGO and “keeping 147 migrants at sea for weeks.” In a video message on X, the deputy prime minister described in detail the events leading up to his decision to prevent the landing in Italy:
On July 29, 2019, a Spanish NGO ship, the Open Arms, sets said from Syracuse headed to Lampedusa. It will never reach Lampedusa. Suddenly, it deletes its destination from the logbook and heads towards the Libyan coast.
On August 1st, it manages to intercept a boat with illegal immigrants on board. From that moment, it begins to sail through the Mediterranean picking up more illegal immigrants and heading towards Italy. On August 20th, it arrives off the coast of Sicily with 164 illegal immigrants on board.
In the preceding days, it had stubbornly refused every request for help, assistance, or disembarkation at ports other than Italian ones. They said no to Tunisia, they said no to Malta, they even said no to the flag state, namely Spain. More than twenty days of sailing in the Mediterranean while holding all these illegal immigrants on board when it would have taken just 72 hours to reach Spain.
This Spanish ship refused, not once, but twice to disembark the illegal immigrants at two ports made available by Spain. and even refused the aid of a military ship sent by the Spanish government.
During the Mediterranean journey of the Open Arms, we always rescued and disembarked sick people, pregnant women, and minors on board.
Together with my government colleagues, I had signed the ban on entering Italian territorial waters. Thanks to my government’s actions, landings, deaths, and disappearances in the Mediterranean Sea decreased. In the year before I took office, there had been 42,700 illegal landings. During my tenure at the Ministry of the Interior, arrivals were reduced to 8,691. After me, unfortunately, the landings went back up, exceeding 21,000 in the same period.
This Spanish ship was never prevented from going anywhere, except to Italy because we could no longer be the refugee camp for all of Europe. No government and no minister in history has ever been accused or put on trial for defending the borders of his own country.
Article 52 of the Italian Constitution states: “The defence of the Homeland is a sacred duty for every citizen.”
I declare myself guilty of defending Italy and Italians. I declare myself guilty of keeping the promise I made.
“The prosecution has asked for former interior minister Salvini to be sentenced to six years,” Open Arms’ lawyer Arturo Salerni told AFP, as the “long and difficult trial” nears an end.”
I couldn’t glean from the article why the ship refused to dock in Spain. Why only Italy? They were so focused on docking in Italian territory that they’d rather just sit out at sea and have everybody onboard run out of food and get sick for three weeks. That makes no sense, right?
I’ve seen a couple of interviews with the people who run these rescue boats several years ago. They state clearly that they are going to continue doing this rescue work for as long as it is needed and that they will never take anyone back to an African country as no African country is safe.
They then insist that they must be allowed to dock in Italy as it is the nearest ‘safe’ country and that these boats do not have enough fuel to go longer distances.
Having made their implacable statements they always follow it up with a demand the the EU MUST organise a proper permanent migrant distribution plan for ALL EU Member States whether they want migrants or not. They hold the EU to ransom which is just what the EU wants, of course
It would be very handy for Globalist Fraud Meloni if her main rival was out of the way in prison: Italy’s True Patriot Leader Matteo Salvini.
Mogwai
6 months ago
This is going to sound insensitive because people have died but how much you betting these later get reported as ”women and children”? They already mention a 10 month old baby who was taken to hospital, well I’ve never yet seen a single woman or young child onboard or disembarking from any boat. Maybe all of these videos uploaded are highly selective and cherry-picked to the max because they’re always just men and youths. I know if I had a 10 month old baby I’d be making do with where I was in France, not selfishly and foolishly risking my child’s life by crossing the Channel in an overcrowded inflatable. But that’s if they even exist. It’s the job of the MSM to support a government narrative and keep it going, with whatever add-ons woven into the emotive storyline so as to tug on our heartstrings, after all. And in any case, although tragic, these deaths are on France, and the people smugglers, of course;
”At least eight migrants have died off the coast of France while attempting to cross the English Channel – as new data reveals 801 people arrived on the UK’s shores yesterday.
The latest government figures show those who arrived made their journey on Saturday in 14 boats.
It is the second-highest number of arrivals this year. The current record for the highest number of arrivals in one day this year so far is 882 in 15 boats on 18 June.
The deaths occurred after a vessel “tore apart on the rocks” off Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France overnight, a regional official said.
Some 51 survivors of the disaster were rescued. Six were taken to hospital, including a 10-month-old baby suffering from hypothermia.
Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s refugee and migrant rights director, said: “This is yet another appalling and avoidable tragedy and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who’ve died.
“These perilous crossings are seemingly becoming more and more dangerous, suggesting smugglers are taking greater chances with people’s lives as they try to evade detection efforts by the UK and French authorities.”
He added: “The government’s ‘smash the gangs’ slogan and its security-heavy approach is contributing to the death toll because the refusal to establish safe asylum routes means these flimsy vessels controlled by people smugglers are the only real option for desperate people fleeing persecution.”
Note the System’s use of the word ‘smuggling’ now, which the boat invasions are not. Fridge vans concealing humans, yes, but they seem less popular. Twisting our fine language, again, to fool the programmed living amongst us.
The illegal aliens chose to journey entirely of their own volition from France. The organisers are purely peripheral to the root problem – EU open borders, free subsidised lives in the UK, and our Guv’s compliance per BINO.
PS. Have you noticed the annoying straps appeared on drinks bottle tops? – EU ‘regulation’. QED.
But what are your thoughts on the whole ”women and children” thing, that only ever seems to be reported on in the newspapers but there’s never any supporting evidence in the form of video footage of their existence uploaded online?
My theories are a) they don’t exist. Complete MSM BS fabrication in order to manipulate public perception and make us sympathize with the plight of migrants, attempting to morph us into more of the ”refugees welcome” masochistic nutters, or b) women and children migrants do exist but they’re being trafficked against their will.
The reason for considering the latter is that if you were fleeing ( supposed ) persecution and you had kids in tow that made travelling even more arduous and also made you more vulnerable, wouldn’t you just stop at the first safe country you arrived in? France is safe, but how many other safe countries would they even pass prior to that? Probably many. So why in God’s name would you then think paying through the nose even more to embark on a high risk journey across the English Channel, further traumatizing your small child/children and endangering their lives unnecessarily was a really good idea? No sane person would, would they? A single person obviously would risk it, because they are by the thousands, but parents with little kids? I sure as hell wouldn’t. It’s basically a suicide mission. But if they are being trafficked against their will I couldn’t say with confidence why that would be.
It’s almost certainly a lie, therefore your theory (a).
Those touting the women and children line could, if they want to provide ‘proof’, use faked photos, CGI, crisis actors and the like, but that’s a lot of bother and expense when you can just lie.
So what if these lies are uncovered, questioned and called out? The MSM juggernaut simply moves on, crushing all objections in its path
Indeed so, and it certainly appears as a [very expensive and coordinated] media operation as much as anything else. Having passed through up to 12? EU countries on their journey they have chosen the UK, and wholeheartedly like you I would settle for the first safe country [if indeed fleeing from slaughter~persecution was the genuine reason].
You make good points, in that it could be partly~substantially trafficking if the illegals are supervised and corralled all the way over. In which case, one should ask who is really behind it at source. Maybe that palindromic Hungarian or his “even more evil” son? And in turn, who is commanding them to do their bidding? There is a lot behind the curtain.
Steve Valdez-Symonds, from ‘SHAMmnesty’ International used to turn up on GB News quite often, with his usual spiel ‘let them IN’. For my own sanity, every time he came on I had to mute the TV and go out of the room for ten minutes.
Unfortunately ‘for balance’ there are evermore lefties on GB news so I am watching the channel less and less.
Sorry but the graph in the article tells me nothing of significance. Net migration factors in the number of people leaving. That’s a separate question. What we want to know is primarily what is the net position regarding non U.K. citizens – how many arrived and how many left?
EppingBlogger
6 months ago
We ought to be surprised that Rwanda was condemned by the left and much of the MSM whereas Albania is considered OK.
Meanwhile the choice of Rwanda by other European countries is also approved.
The UN considers Rwanda a safe country for refugees. Except when the UK wanted to send them there.
“Rwanda has a strong history of providing protection to those that need it, and currently hosts over 135,000 refugees and asylum seekers who have found safety and sanctuary there. The UNHCR operates its own refugee scheme in Rwanda.”
Complaining about Sunak’s bill, the UN used the following justification: “This arrangement seeks to shift responsibility for refugee protection, undermining international cooperation, Mr. Grandi added.
“The new legislation marks a further step away from the UK’s long tradition of providing refuge to those in need, in breach of the Refugee Convention,” he said. “Protecting refugees requires all countries, not just those neighbouring crisis zones, to uphold their obligations.”
So the UN didn’t consider Rwanda unsafe …. it just demanded the UK keep the tens of thousands of criminal migrants forcing their way into the country.
I’m sure the other European nations, eyeing up Rwanda and the facilities WE paid to provide are well aware that the UN considers Rwanda to be safe.
This was my first thought but as ever, no one seems to question it and Starmer doesn’t seem required to justify it in any meaningful way. Perhaps it’s as simple as the Big Bad Tories suggested Rwanda whereas anything anyone else suggests is OK.
Also weird, to my mind at least, is this sudden love of Meloni and the desire to copy her policies. Perhaps I’m getting a bit behind here, but I thought she was considered to be dangerous far right racist scum?
She’s a Globalist Fraud, masquerading as a Patriot, and she wants to replace Unelected Dictator Leyen as EU Empress.
The absurd attempts to imprison Italy’s True Patriot Leader, Matteo Salvini, for taking real action against Third World Invaders seems very convenient for her, getting rid of her main rival.
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So during Starmer’s 50 days in power, he’s found time to fly to Rome to meet Ms. Meloni twice, since they don’t have telephones or internet there (?). Yes, her “strong opinions” about immigration were all talk and no action for her first years in office, during which Third World Invaders continued to swarm in.
She’s very popular with foreign leaders, like the Ugandan military commander
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who offered her a dowry of 100 cows to marry him, or else he would invade Italy.
Now that Germany is offering to send its own Third World Invaders to take up residence in the Rwandan accommodation built by British Taxpayers, does that mean Germany will refund our £700 million for that?
What is truly astonishing, is this all-but-forgotten admission by Lord Peter Mandelson eleven years ago, in the article referenced by Mogwai elsewhere:
“In a stunning confirmation that the Blair and Brown governments deliberately engineered mass immigration, the former Cabinet Minister and spin doctor said New Labour sought out foreign workers.
He also conceded that the influx of arrivals meant the party’s traditional supporters are now unable to find work.”
“When Labour encouraged new arrivals ‘WE WERE ALMOST … A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY’ but, he admitted: ‘The situation is different obviously now.
‘We have to just realise… entry to the labour market of many people of non-British origin is hard for people who are finding it very difficult to find jobs, who find it hard to keep jobs.'”
Lord Mandelson: Immigrants? We sent out search parties to get them in and made it hard for Britons to get work | Daily Mail Online
Let that sink in…
“WE WERE ALMOST…A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY.” (!!!)
“WE WERE ALMOST…A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY.” (!!!)
“WE WERE ALMOST…A FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY.” (!!!)
That was thanks to one person: Margaret Thatcher.
Aye and that made sure labour was always cheap!
Am I right in saying that Alistair Campbell was a ‘special advisor’ to the Albanian Government for a while.?
“how we can work together on irregular migration”.
You can firk right off with that lie Kneel. And he is lying. Irregular suggests something slightly amiss. We are suffering from illegal immigration ie the perps are breaking the law. There is nothing amiss just plainly illegal. And of course the illegal immigrants are being imported not battling their way across the busiest shipping lane in the world on a home-made raft tied together with bits of string.
Utter Next Tuesday.
I think these race-goers are fully onboard with that assessment;
”UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gets Booed, Heckled and called a “W*nker” as he attends a horse race.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1835376810860703774
Someone mentioned the pensioners, he was a wan*er long before that!
Typical leftists always play with language.
Agreed – this word ‘irregular’ hacks me off. IMO nudge language.
in the prison I worked with we had a number of sex offenders found guilty of particularly ‘irregular’ behaviour.
Actually Hux, illegal immigration isn’t a fraction of a broken crisp in an extra large bag. May’s insane legal immigration Bill is the problem which says anybody can bring their extended family with them, particularly students. Why does a Student need his Mom, Dad, Sisters, Brothers and Aunties and Grannies here? He’s a Student for heavens sakes!
They can only stay a certain length of time though. I think their visitor visas last 3 months max. It’s the same here. Lots of expats have their parents visit from far away countries and they can stay 12 weeks before they must return.
On the topic of Italy, deputy PM Matteo Salvini learns next month if he’s going to get sent to prison for defending his country by preventing a boat-load of illegals who snubbed Spain because they wanted to disembark in Lampedusa instead, but he was having none of it;
”Matteo Salvini, Italy’s right-wing deputy prime minister, is hitting back after Italian prosecutors requested on Saturday a six-year prison sentence against him for blocking migrants from disembarking at one of the country’s ports in 2019.
Salvini, a partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition, is on trial for alleged “deprivation of liberty and abuse of office” for preventing the Lampedusa landing of the Open Arms ship run by a Spanish NGO and “keeping 147 migrants at sea for weeks.” In a video message on X, the deputy prime minister described in detail the events leading up to his decision to prevent the landing in Italy:
On July 29, 2019, a Spanish NGO ship, the Open Arms, sets said from Syracuse headed to Lampedusa. It will never reach Lampedusa. Suddenly, it deletes its destination from the logbook and heads towards the Libyan coast.
On August 1st, it manages to intercept a boat with illegal immigrants on board. From that moment, it begins to sail through the Mediterranean picking up more illegal immigrants and heading towards Italy. On August 20th, it arrives off the coast of Sicily with 164 illegal immigrants on board.
In the preceding days, it had stubbornly refused every request for help, assistance, or disembarkation at ports other than Italian ones. They said no to Tunisia, they said no to Malta, they even said no to the flag state, namely Spain. More than twenty days of sailing in the Mediterranean while holding all these illegal immigrants on board when it would have taken just 72 hours to reach Spain.
This Spanish ship refused, not once, but twice to disembark the illegal immigrants at two ports made available by Spain. and even refused the aid of a military ship sent by the Spanish government.
“The prosecution has asked for former interior minister Salvini to be sentenced to six years,” Open Arms’ lawyer Arturo Salerni told AFP, as the “long and difficult trial” nears an end.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/defending-italy-is-not-a-crime-salvini-reacts-to-prosecutors-request-for-six-year-sentence/
Almost, but only almost, unbelievable.
I couldn’t glean from the article why the ship refused to dock in Spain. Why only Italy? They were so focused on docking in Italian territory that they’d rather just sit out at sea and have everybody onboard run out of food and get sick for three weeks. That makes no sense, right?
Something dodgy going on Mogs that’s for sure.
As mentioned, those NGOs are as despicable as the smugglers.
Was it a Globalist Stitch-Up to get rid of their darling Meloni’s main rival Salvini?
I’ve seen a couple of interviews with the people who run these rescue boats several years ago. They state clearly that they are going to continue doing this rescue work for as long as it is needed and that they will never take anyone back to an African country as no African country is safe.
They then insist that they must be allowed to dock in Italy as it is the nearest ‘safe’ country and that these boats do not have enough fuel to go longer distances.
Having made their implacable statements they always follow it up with a demand the the EU MUST organise a proper permanent migrant distribution plan for ALL EU Member States whether they want migrants or not. They hold the EU to ransom which is just what the EU wants, of course
It would be very handy for Globalist Fraud Meloni if her main rival was out of the way in prison: Italy’s True Patriot Leader Matteo Salvini.
This is going to sound insensitive because people have died but how much you betting these later get reported as ”women and children”? They already mention a 10 month old baby who was taken to hospital, well I’ve never yet seen a single woman or young child onboard or disembarking from any boat. Maybe all of these videos uploaded are highly selective and cherry-picked to the max because they’re always just men and youths. I know if I had a 10 month old baby I’d be making do with where I was in France, not selfishly and foolishly risking my child’s life by crossing the Channel in an overcrowded inflatable. But that’s if they even exist. It’s the job of the MSM to support a government narrative and keep it going, with whatever add-ons woven into the emotive storyline so as to tug on our heartstrings, after all. And in any case, although tragic, these deaths are on France, and the people smugglers, of course;
”At least eight migrants have died off the coast of France while attempting to cross the English Channel – as new data reveals 801 people arrived on the UK’s shores yesterday.
The latest government figures show those who arrived made their journey on Saturday in 14 boats.
It is the second-highest number of arrivals this year. The current record for the highest number of arrivals in one day this year so far is 882 in 15 boats on 18 June.
The deaths occurred after a vessel “tore apart on the rocks” off Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France overnight, a regional official said.
Some 51 survivors of the disaster were rescued. Six were taken to hospital, including a 10-month-old baby suffering from hypothermia.
Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s refugee and migrant rights director, said: “This is yet another appalling and avoidable tragedy and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who’ve died.
“These perilous crossings are seemingly becoming more and more dangerous, suggesting smugglers are taking greater chances with people’s lives as they try to evade detection efforts by the UK and French authorities.”
He added: “The government’s ‘smash the gangs’ slogan and its security-heavy approach is contributing to the death toll because the refusal to establish safe asylum routes means these flimsy vessels controlled by people smugglers are the only real option for desperate people fleeing persecution.”
https://news.sky.com/story/eight-dead-after-attempting-to-cross-channel-as-801-people-arrived-yesterday-13215343
Note the System’s use of the word ‘smuggling’ now, which the boat invasions are not. Fridge vans concealing humans, yes, but they seem less popular. Twisting our fine language, again, to fool the programmed living amongst us.
The illegal aliens chose to journey entirely of their own volition from France. The organisers are purely peripheral to the root problem – EU open borders, free subsidised lives in the UK, and our Guv’s compliance per BINO.
PS. Have you noticed the annoying straps appeared on drinks bottle tops? – EU ‘regulation’. QED.
But what are your thoughts on the whole ”women and children” thing, that only ever seems to be reported on in the newspapers but there’s never any supporting evidence in the form of video footage of their existence uploaded online?
My theories are a) they don’t exist. Complete MSM BS fabrication in order to manipulate public perception and make us sympathize with the plight of migrants, attempting to morph us into more of the ”refugees welcome” masochistic nutters, or b) women and children migrants do exist but they’re being trafficked against their will.
The reason for considering the latter is that if you were fleeing ( supposed ) persecution and you had kids in tow that made travelling even more arduous and also made you more vulnerable, wouldn’t you just stop at the first safe country you arrived in? France is safe, but how many other safe countries would they even pass prior to that? Probably many. So why in God’s name would you then think paying through the nose even more to embark on a high risk journey across the English Channel, further traumatizing your small child/children and endangering their lives unnecessarily was a really good idea? No sane person would, would they? A single person obviously would risk it, because they are by the thousands, but parents with little kids? I sure as hell wouldn’t. It’s basically a suicide mission. But if they are being trafficked against their will I couldn’t say with confidence why that would be.
It’s almost certainly a lie, therefore your theory (a).
Those touting the women and children line could, if they want to provide ‘proof’, use faked photos, CGI, crisis actors and the like, but that’s a lot of bother and expense when you can just lie.
So what if these lies are uncovered, questioned and called out? The MSM juggernaut simply moves on, crushing all objections in its path
Indeed so, and it certainly appears as a [very expensive and coordinated] media operation as much as anything else. Having passed through up to 12? EU countries on their journey they have chosen the UK, and wholeheartedly like you I would settle for the first safe country [if indeed fleeing from slaughter~persecution was the genuine reason].
You make good points, in that it could be partly~substantially trafficking if the illegals are supervised and corralled all the way over. In which case, one should ask who is really behind it at source. Maybe that palindromic Hungarian or his “even more evil” son? And in turn, who is commanding them to do their bidding? There is a lot behind the curtain.
Kalergi keeps popping into mind.
Re the bottle tops – I always tear them off and they go in the bin separately to the bottle.
One read it takes 10Nm power to twist them off. We use scissors!
The French could stop it almost overnight if they took the criminal migrants back.
They won’t ….. ergo they don’t want it to stop.
If Godfrey Bloom was PM he would attempt to stop them by any mean necessary, only draining the Whitehall swamp would be the real challenge.
Wrong….Stay in bloody France!
Steve Valdez-Symonds, from ‘SHAMmnesty’ International used to turn up on GB News quite often, with his usual spiel ‘let them IN’. For my own sanity, every time he came on I had to mute the TV and go out of the room for ten minutes.
Unfortunately ‘for balance’ there are evermore lefties on GB news so I am watching the channel less and less.
Sorry but the graph in the article tells me nothing of significance. Net migration factors in the number of people leaving. That’s a separate question. What we want to know is primarily what is the net position regarding non U.K. citizens – how many arrived and how many left?
We ought to be surprised that Rwanda was condemned by the left and much of the MSM whereas Albania is considered OK.
Meanwhile the choice of Rwanda by other European countries is also approved.
A bit odd.
The UN considers Rwanda a safe country for refugees. Except when the UK wanted to send them there.
“Rwanda has a strong history of providing protection to those that need it, and currently hosts over 135,000 refugees and asylum seekers who have found safety and sanctuary there. The UNHCR operates its own refugee scheme in Rwanda.”
Complaining about Sunak’s bill, the UN used the following justification:
“This arrangement seeks to shift responsibility for refugee protection, undermining international cooperation, Mr. Grandi added.
“The new legislation marks a further step away from the UK’s long tradition of providing refuge to those in need, in breach of the Refugee Convention,” he said. “Protecting refugees requires all countries, not just those neighbouring crisis zones, to uphold their obligations.”
So the UN didn’t consider Rwanda unsafe …. it just demanded the UK keep the tens of thousands of criminal migrants forcing their way into the country.
I’m sure the other European nations, eyeing up Rwanda and the facilities WE paid to provide are well aware that the UN considers Rwanda to be safe.
This was my first thought but as ever, no one seems to question it and Starmer doesn’t seem required to justify it in any meaningful way. Perhaps it’s as simple as the Big Bad Tories suggested Rwanda whereas anything anyone else suggests is OK.
Also weird, to my mind at least, is this sudden love of Meloni and the desire to copy her policies. Perhaps I’m getting a bit behind here, but I thought she was considered to be dangerous far right racist scum?
She’s a Globalist Fraud, masquerading as a Patriot, and she wants to replace Unelected Dictator Leyen as EU Empress.
The absurd attempts to imprison Italy’s True Patriot Leader, Matteo Salvini, for taking real action against Third World Invaders seems very convenient for her, getting rid of her main rival.
Clearly Rwanda does not have enough syllables in the name. This is the level of thinking within the HoP bubble.