By Paul Adams
The UK – Rwanda Treaty completed its ratification process through its rather tortuous process of parliamentary ‘ping-pong’ on 25 April 2024.
This took several weeks of to-ing and fro-ing between the House of Commons and the unelected House of Lords.
Following this, there was an undertaking to carry out the first flights to Rwanda on a projected timescale of between 10-12 weeks from that date.
As time wore on, the projected timescale was still in 10-12 weeks time and never seemed to diminish. How strange!!
People started to wonder if the first flight would ever take place!
Then, less than a month later on the Wednesday 22 May, unexpectedly, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a General Election (GE) to be held on 4 July 2024, which caught everyone by surprise, totally blindsiding friend and foe, including the Mainstream Media (MSM) and even the Cabinet and his own diminishing band of MPs, which was originally a majority of 80 MPs, now reduced to 38 at dissolution of Parliament.
The date of the General Election is exactly 10 weeks after ratification of the UK – Rwanda Treaty.
Again, people started to wonder if the first flight would take place.
Then, a day or two after the Prime Minister called the GE, it was announced that no flights would take place before the GE and the first flights would be included as a Tory manifesto commitment.
Watch this space!
WHETHER YOU THINK THE UK-RWANDA TREATY IS VALUE FOR MONEY OR NOT, THE FAILURE TO EXECUTE THE UK-RWANDA TREATY IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST POLITICAL BETRAYALS TO HAVE EVER BEEN CARRIED OUT BY A UK PRIME MINISTER AND A TORY PRIME MINISTER AT THAT. SABOTAGED BY HIS OWN HAND BY CALLING AN ELECTION BEFORE HIS PLEDGE TO STOP THE BOATS HAD BEEN FULFILLED.
It is surmised that he was advised to call an election because he feared he would lose more of his pathetic Tory ‘One Nation’ MPs to the equally pathetic Labour Party.
Anyone who is a keen observer of Tory manifesto commitments will have observed that a Tory manifesto commitment is not worth the paper it’s printed on!
Example, the 2019 GE commitment to reduce legal ‘net’ migration.
Keen political ‘nerds’ may remember that shortly after Sunak became PM in Autumn 2022, he flew to Bali for the G20. Whilst on the flight, he was interviewed by the BBC’s Political Editor Chris Mason, who raised the issue of legal migration, to which Sunak stated ”Legal Migration is not my priority”.
What!?
This was a 2019 GE Tory Manifesto commitment, no doubt to be paid ‘lip service’ to!
Nobody in his Party batted an eyelid and nothing was heard of it again…. that is until he sacked his Home Secretary, Suella Braverman in Autumn 2023 and she produced her ‘bombshell’ letter to Sunak in which she ‘blew the lid’ off his premiership. To remind observers of Sunak’s lack of credibility and another one of his betrayals, here is an excerpt from Suella Braverman’s letter to Sunak.
“Despite you having been rejected by a majority of party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be prime minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities. These were, among other things:
- Reduce legal migration as set out in the 2019 manifesto through, inter alia, reforming the international students route and increasing the salary thresholds on work visas.
- Include specific “notwithstanding clauses” into new legislation to stop the boats, ie exclude the operation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Human Rights Act (HRA) and other international law that had thus far obstructed progress on this issue.”
“I worked up the legal advice, policy detail and action to take on these issues. This was often met with equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest.
You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these policies. Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises”.
“They are what we promised the British people in our 2019 manifesto which led to a landslide victory. They are what people voted for on the 2016 Brexit Referendum”.
THIS WAS ANOTHER ONE OF SUNAK’S BETRAYALS.
He should have been booted out by the vacillating and spineless Tories there and then. It is inconceivable that the Tories were so cowardly in not booting him out.
Returning to the UK – Rwanda Treaty, this shambles has cost as follows:
According to an investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO), the development funding comprises a fixed cost of £370 million, plus an additional £120 million once 300 people are relocated to Rwanda. An additional £20,000 will be paid to the development fund for each person that is relocated. 26 Apr 2024
How much has the UK given to Rwanda?
The UK government had paid £240m to Rwanda by the end of 2023. However, the total payment will be at least £370m over five years, according to the National Audit Office. 23 May 2024
The brutal truth is that the UK-Rwanda Treaty is not going to be fulfilled and at least £240 million of taxpayers money has been spent on a policy which is ‘dead in the water’, civil servants time is being expended and training is still being carried out at Boscombe Down in handling reluctant asylum seekers.
The betrayals and the incompetence don’t end there. There is more to come as follows:
An article by Migration Watch has revealed that there is a caveat to this Rwanda Deal which is little known about but which is now in the public domain but by which the government and Mainstream Media (MSM) have kept very quiet.
A little-noted clause in the Rwanda Agreement commits the UK to resettling an ‘unspecified’ number of refugees from that country to the UK. When and where was this publicised?
Clause 16 of the deal Memorandum of Understanding states regarding ‘Resettlement of Vulnerable Refugees’ as follows:
“Participants will make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the UK.”
There are about 100,000 refugees in Rwanda, two thirds of whom are Congolese according to the UN.
On the 16 June 2022, in the House of Lords, Migration Watch President, Lord Green of Deddington asked the Government a question as follows:
“To ask her Majesty’s Government , further to section 16 of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and the Government of Rwanda for the provision of an asylum partnership arrangement, how many refugees from Rwanda will be resettled in the UK; and over what time period they will be resettled?”
The answer, by Home Office Minister, Baroness Williams of Trafford, is below:
“A small number of the most vulnerable refugees in Rwanda will be resettled in the UK as part of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership. More details on the resettlement of vulnerable refugees will be set out in due course. The partnership between the UK and Rwanda is now underway and is expected to last for at least five years.”
There is no detail regarding what constitutes a ‘vulnerable refugee’ and there is no detail about ‘how small is a small number of refugees’.
Refugees with Mental Health issues perhaps. Paranoid Schizophrenia maybe. We all know what can happen when people with paranoid schizophrenia issues are left to walk the streets and who fail to take their medication. Bluntly, the Establishment put the public in grave danger and then a tragedy occurs and then to add insult to injury, the public are plied with statements such as ‘opportunities were missed’.
The Memorandum of Understanding predates Sunak’s premiership and was signed in Kigali on 13 April 2022 by the Rt Hon Priti Patel MP. ANOTHER BETRAYAL BY THE TORIES.
Summary
The UK-Rwanda Treaty is so complicated and is so full of bureaucracy and ‘monitoring’ that it appears to be a bureaucratic nightmare and so costly. The £240 million paid to Rwanda by the end of 2023 is only the tip of the iceberg. The costs of training in handling reluctant asylum seekers and the costs of flights to Kigali are not detailed here.
It is so bureaucratic and the length of the rules and regulations are staggering and are so complex that it seems unworkable and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Refugee Convention and the Human Rights Act (HRA) are so interwoven into the Treaty that to exit the ECHR, the Refugee Convention and the HRA would require the Treaty to be rewritten and to start again from scratch.
Exiting the ECHR, the Refugee Convention and abolishing the HRA are absolutely necessary because unless the UK divests itself of these conventions, the UK-Rwanda Treaty would appear to fail if it were to go ahead at all.
The Asylum System is an absolute disaster.
What is absolutely necessary is a ‘Ring of Steel’ in the English Channel and the Royal Navy to stop the boats from entering British Waters.
If they can’t be stopped, migrants must be picked up and returned to France immediately under armed guard. No messing. This is a National Emergency.
They must not under any circumstances be brought ashore at Dover.
Never ever, must the so-called ‘centre ground’ of British Politics be allowed to inflict their damaging woke policies on the British public. Their so-called centre ground of British Politics is not the centre ground at all, it is an extreme policy of destruction and a dereliction of duty and it is part of a ‘racist’ strategy of the Great Replacement of the indigenous British People.
BOOT THE ESTABLISHMENT PARTIES OUT.
References:
GOV. UK
UK-Rwanda Treaty completes ratification process – published 25 April 2024 from the Home Office and The Rt Hon James Cleverly
Policy Paper – Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Rwanda
Policy Paper – Memorandum of Understanding between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the government of the Republic of Rwanda for the provision of an asylum partnership arrangement – Updated 6 April 2023
Statutory Statement for the provision of an asylum partnership to strengthen shared international commitments on the protection of refugees and migrants
Statement concerning the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Rwanda for the provision of an asylum partnership to strengthen shared international commitments on the protection of refugees and migrants – dated 25 April 2024
Update on the UK – Rwanda Partnership – Statement made on 25 April 2024 by the Rt Hon James Cleverly
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