This isn’t pride or patriotism. ~AA

It's almost like the whole thing is the spasmodic death throe of a government that urgently needs putting out of its misery.

Myth-debunking from Amnesty UK: Other countries 'off-shore' the assessment of asylum claims but under THEIR law, with successful claimants then being settled in THEIR country. What the UK is doing is a paid and total abdication of its international duties to another country. ~AA

Chair of Home Affairs Select Committee Diana Johnson DBE MP 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌈 says she is deeply worried by what we have uncovered.

'The idea has been put forward that this is a 'few bad apples', but actually what this is pointing to is much more about the general culture of those in leadership

It is so vital to remember that the Rwanda scheme was conceived as a dead cat to get Johnson out of #Partygate difficulties and was never meant to be progressed or even taken seriously. ~AA

The Rwanda scheme dismantled, through numbers.

'This is an act of performative cruelty,' Caroline Lucas says of the Rwanda scheme. 'It's illegal, it's immoral and indeed, it is unworkable.' 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽~AA

Coburn: 'Will [the Rwanda plan] work?'
Ellwood: 'Yes. We want it to.' 👀 ~AA #PoliticsLive

How is this a 'blow for Farage' just because he said he'd like the job? It was about as likely as his being appointed Liverpool FC manager. ~AA

The whole absurdity of the Rwanda scheme, in 60 seconds, from Sky News' Tom Cheshire.

A performative, reputation-trashing drop in the ocean, at the cost of £660,000 per removee.

Please share! ~AA

According to this striking British Election Study data in The Economist, the percentage of voters considering more than one progressive party is at its highest in a decade (probably ever).

#TacticalVoting FTW! ~AA

We have also put together a helpful Q&A summarising the basic issues with - and debunking the most common myths around - the Rwanda gimmick.

Refugees have no voice, so it’s important for us all to adopt an advocacy role with friends and family. ~AA
bestforbritain.org/the_rwanda_bil…

'This flawed bill denies reality, soils the UK's international reputation and sets extremely dangerous precedents. Mercifully, polls suggest this could be this govt’s last spiteful act. When the election comes, people must vote tactically for change.' ~AA bestforbritain.org/rwanda_plan_ac…

There is much to celebrate on #StGeorgesDay2024 . And much on which to reflect. ~AA

Gov’t dementia adviser resigns over DWP pursuing carers that ***it overpaid***. “We have made absolutely no progress at all on social care. We really did not support carers during the pandemic. But this latest thing is beyond the pale for me really.” ~AA

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

A brilliant speech from David Anderson. He proposes that the Secretary of State be given an untrammelled power to determine in the future that Rwanda is no longer safe. The Government rejected even that. Rwanda is now deemed “safe” in law in perpetuity irrespective of reality. Mad.

Meanwhile, in Pledge 3 news (government debt to be falling): deficit for the year comes in £7.6bn higher than budgeted *only last month*. ~AA

The government has a majority in the Commons and the Lords.

And the PM delayed the Lords ping pong until after the Easter recess to stave off his own party problems.

Some of the Lords amendments had unprecedented majorities for them.

Maybe the Bill is the issue!!!

As the Rwanda Bill becomes law, the Royal College of Nursing will continue to oppose the government’s approach to asylum on medical, ethical and humanitarian grounds.

Strange to claim that what your CEO says “should not be taken as policy” because she “does not play any role in the decision-making process”.

Especially when your own website describes the board as your “main decision-making body... which provides strategic direction”. ~AA