Asylum seekers wanting to get to the UK pre-Brexit was a massive problem, both for the French and for the 9,000 plus refugees living in the huge Calais refuge camp where conditions were intolerable but for us not so much - (this camp was broken up in 2016 and refugees dispersed to other regions)...
So did Boris - In June 2016 he signed a letter with other leaders of the Vote Leave Campaign - Michael Gove and Gisela Stuart - sent to David Cameron calling for him to guarantee that the UK would veto Turkish accession to the EU. Mr Johnson, whose great-grandfather was Turkish, was a leading...
Oh yes, the Boris Big Turkey Lie that 80 million Turks would come to this Country if we stayed in the EU.
7 years later, and after 50 years of Turkey wanting accession, Turkey is no closer to joining the EU than it was then - in fact, continued Human Rights abuses on its own citizens and its...
Unfortunately, facts only prove how thick some people can appear when they don’t rely on them :dunce:
(Can we say people are ‘thick’ was it decided yet?)
I think we’ve had a narrow escape tbh - Ms Braverman’s rhetoric since she became HS was absolutely BNPesque of the first order - her vile hate speeches has undermined the cohesion of society more than the multi-culturalism and so called ‘illegal immigration’ she blames for that lack of cohesion...
Cameron was the one that called a referendum, it was solely his choice and he called it because he thought he could win - our exit from the EU wasn’t inevitable - it was a minority of the Tory Euro-sceptics that were demanding a vote fed up with the coalition and worried Farage and his UKIP...
BoJo is suggesting a technical tweak to the law - He says the government has the power, under Schedule 3 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004, to ask Parliament to deem Rwanda a “safe country" and this should be done "immediately" - (sort of like when they renamed Windscale ‘Sellafield’ to...
Hoping I’m not waking up a sleeping giant here:
Supreme Court rules today on the legality of the Pitel/Braverman Rwanda Deportation Plan
https://www.politico.eu/article/judgment-day-britain-politcs-rishi-sunak-supreme-court-rules-rwanda-deportation-plan-immigration-uk-gvernment/...