Minister: This is rather frustrating.
BBC: I'm just trying to have some clarity-
Minister: Well, you're not going to get that clarity. 😮

Tomlinson seems to think that saying 'respectfully' all the time somehow makes up for being patronising, shouting, and banging the table. ~AA

How DARE journalists try to probe exactly how half a billion of public money the ONS says the scheme will cost is being spent?

Best mansplain how a bill becomes law to one of the most experienced political journalists.

UGH. Can we have some serious people in charge, please? ~AA

John Redwood Hilarious
- there are boats setting off this morning
- people are desperate they don't care about a risk in time of being sent somewhere else
- it means nothing to smugglers who take money regardless

It is a massive fantasy that will not work

Lord Carlile of Berriew, 'At the moment, even if the Secretary of State becomes aware that Rwanda is non compliant, the bill as it stands would mean, that it still be deemed compliant'

'Is there anybody in this house who doesn't honestly think that that is nonsense?'

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What a rancid,divided,hateful,dreadful country UK has become. Rwanda will NOT work,just like bloody Brexit hasn’t worked. Years they have locked them up,NOT PROCESSING THEM. Sunak is evil personified. Unelected incompetent. ALL ABOUT HIS POWER. TORIES HAVE CELEBRATORY DRINKS.🤮🤮

Aside from the cruelty of the Rwanda scheme, one day we’ll look back, as our population ages & costs soar, because our dwindling birth rate means the UK’s societal & economic pyramid scheme collapses and ask ourselves why we sent young, able people, entitled to stay here, away.

What the Rwanda Bill delivers:
-£500m+ bill for taxpayers
-performative cruelty for political gain
-breaking international law
-denying basic human rights to desperate people
-dog whistle to the worst dregs of society
-making people ashamed to be British
#RwandaNotInMyName

Rishi Sunak is betting everything on drawing an electoral line with the Labour party, no matter what the cost to the UK exchequer, our international reputation, or the lives of those affected.

Why Sunak's Rwandan 'dream' will now turn into a nightmare

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Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 You steaming disgrace Michael Tomlinson. You revolting excuse for a human being. Getting your tetchy trousers on to defend the indefensible. Confirming you offer no refuge to victims of torture or trafficking. Pretending you’re saving lives when you’re ruining them. For shame.

Mishal Husain: Can you still be removed to Rwanda if you're a victim of torture?

Michael Tomlinson: Yes

MH: If you're a victim of trafficking

MT: Rwanda is a safe country

MH: So whatever physical or mental state they are in, they're still eligible to be on a plane

#r4today

The proposition put forward by people who support the Rwanda scheme is that being sent to the paradise that is, according to them, Rwanda will be a more powerful disincentive than death. Even on its own terms this cruel and expensive gimmick makes no sense. ~AA

NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...NOT IN MY NAME ........ RWANDA ...

I've sat in court rooms with Albanian victims of human trafficking, mainly women trafficked for sex who the govt were attempting to deport regardless of fact they had already twice been retrafficked. We won and in my presence Home Office were too ashamed to even put in evidence.

Michael Tomlinson is apparently good at cricket, I suggest he go back to that, because he came across as a pompous, sexist, patronising and aggressive on the radio this morning as well as not being across the actual detail.

Some credit for Jews please who oppose the genocidal Zionist regime in Israel-it takes courage to face this abuse-to be called a traitor and be surrounded by bigotry-to be threatened-intimidated-I salute them-do you?
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Morning lovely people… attack the day…

Waking up to the news that the Rwanda Bill has passed, and all that money that’s so very much needed here is being spaffed on a last ditch gimmick to save a few Tory seats. Shameful

Baroness Bennett sums it up

Robert Jenrick St George, not English, didn't slay a dragon, almost certainly didn't come over here and if he did he came over in a small boat.
Also the Patron Saint for Palestine. Also his flag was worn by the French Crusaders originally, but let's not let facts get in the way obvs

Taxi for shouty Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson after a BBC Radio 4 Today car crash interview on the Rwanda scam.

He is utterly clueless.

The true sickness of this country is not found in a Benefits office or GP surgery it’s found in no.10 Downing Street
This is less about actually tackling the problem and more about making enough voters confused and angry.
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Bloody GMC!
It has nothing to do with her fitness to practice