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wait they were going to deport Rwandans?
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For years, Sunak's plan has been to send all undocumented migrants who show up in the UK, wherever they come from, to Rwanda.
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yes multiple times I've had to prove to people that this was real, they just didn't believe it could happen
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I wonder how differently the electorate would behave if they were more willing to believe conservatives would do the awful things they say they will. I suppose it would look like abortion referendums after Dobbs, or the UK election last night!
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weird thing about last night's UK Landslide election was that the percentage of the voters voting for labor increased by less than 2%, but sometimes that's enough for a huge electoral victory
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If you can stand strong while your foes fall apart, that's a way to win
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Yeah, FPTP gets incredibly absurd when you've got more than 2 viable parties in each seat.
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There’s a large subset of the population who actively cheered this on. Basically all Reform voters plus a sizable number of Tory voters.
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OMG really? Because it was bananas and when they doubled down on it we were all like ARE YOU FOR SERIOUS and Rebecca, they extremely were.
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Nigel Farage got the Tories to make policy decisions without even being an mp, was really something
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No, really. F’reals. That bit NEVER went large here in the states. OMFG, what else did we miss? Also, NGL, Kettle Stamper always gave me strong secret nazi vibes, but it looks like I was wrong. That’s the best kind of wrong to be. Well done Brits! Send us hope, we need it!
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EXACTLY! It was super fucked up and also completely bizarre.
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This depravity was first a Boris and Priti plan, a toxic combo of red meat to the base, distraction from COVID and Brexit failures, and pure spite against immigrants The fact that the next PMs and Home Secs pushed it despite legal setbacks and resistance showed how much they all had to go yesterday
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IMPORTANT DETAIL Its why they were trying to get the UK to leave the ECHR (court of human rights thing) Because if you depot them before the asylum claim is processed AT ALL, you can't be charged with crimes against humanity It's why they stopped France from processing on that side of the Channel
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When you're too bigoted to accept any good ideas, you can settle for some awfully bad ones
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I'm guessing the Rwandans haven't signed off on this?
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Oh, they have. Rwanda gets 20000-30000 GBP per deportee
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Rwanda also got a bunch of money up front, apparently. It sounded super expensive all around.
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No! They were going to deport asylum seekers *to* Rwanda! Both morally abject & completely gonzo
Rwanda asylum plan - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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Holy shit "stop the boats" sounds like the "lock her up" chant of your cruel followers, not the savvy marketing slogan you run on
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Australia elected a cruel and expensive government on exactly that slogan. You will have to look it up if you don’t believe me because I’m still too traumatised by it to provide a link. The cruelty and stupidity of my fellow citizens makes me feel actually nauseous
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Depends how they got there but the whole plan when you hear is even more depraved.
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