Entire Conservative Cabinet Knew Rwanda Bill Would Not Work, Says Robert Jenrick
Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet, in its entirety, knew that the Rwanda Bill would not work, Robert Jenrick has said, but they all turned a blind eye, leading him to quit as Immigration Minister. The Telegraph has the story.
The Tory leadership hopeful said on Tuesday night that every Minister “turned a blind eye” to weaknesses in the Bill, which was intended to deport asylum seekers to the east African country.
No one was ever deported under the scheme apart from four migrants who went to Rwanda voluntarily.
Mr. Jenrick resigned as Immigration Minister in December last year because measures he had proposed to strengthen the Bill were rejected by Mr. Sunak.
He told Sky News: “There was a choice for me at the time: take a Bill through Parliament which I knew didn’t work and which, frankly, everyone in Cabinet knew didn’t work; or leave the Government and make the case in Parliament, where I was honest with myself and with the public.”
Mr. Jenrick was then asked to clarify whether everyone in the Cabinet, which included Mr. Sunak and then-Home Secretary James Cleverly, believed it would fail.
“I think everybody involved in that decision knew perfectly well that that policy was not going to succeed, but they turned a blind eye to it,” he said.
“I wasn’t willing to be a minister like that.”
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Send me to Rwanda and I will die a happy man. Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best are like the worst. Where there are no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst, The feeling in this country now is anything to escape this hell. But the longer you leave it the more difficult it will become. Some countries are already imposing very large leaving taxes.
“In the recent poll of all members of the Conservative Party, Blue Wall member Sid ‘Far Right’ Scroggins from Durham (D-Wing) voted for Kemi, and Hyacinth Bouquet from Bromley voted for ‘that nice Robert chap’. There are no other members, and as a result no Conservative leader was elected, prolonging the status quo of the last 30 years. Nigel Farage was contacted at his constituency office (the Red Lion, Clacton Pier), but was ‘unable to comment’. However, a member of his entourage recommended that HMG’s Assisted Death legislation might be something for the CUP to consider”
I do wonder how many Conservative members there are actually left – IIRC, it was down to less than 100k a few years back, the last election must have seriously dented that
I agree. I think most voters also knew that the policy was nothing more than a soundbite. It had no chance of succeeding.
Any attempt to put it into practice would have been thwarted by the human rights industry, the BBC, the left-wing media, the UN and various other organizations.
It saddens me to say this but I think Mr Musk is right, there won’t be a peaceful solution to this issue. The situation will deteriorate until it becomes intolerable.
Just get the scheme going arrange a meeting point and I will be there. I don’t give a monkey’s about Rwandan savages I’ve met similar types before it doesn’t take a lot to put them in check. Lets see it I am happy to relinquish my British citizenship and give it to a Rwandan chancer.
You need to awaken your colonial spirit and get out there. Don’t worry about being savaged in a Rwandan prison. An Englishman always finds a way.
https://millennialwoes.substack.com/p/the-evil-of-banality
An extremely eloquent and heartfelt eulogy to poor Peter Lynch. Contained within is a gruesome autopsy of the cadaver that is Kneel.
Wonderful writing albeit a grim subject.
They all knew, but none of them had the balls to raise it… OR… it wasn’t in their political career interests to raise it *then*. Slippery shysters the lot of them… never forgive, never forget
What do’s Jenrick mean when he says the Rwanda scheme wouldn’t work? Is this him admitting that the cabinet knew it would be blocked by activist judges using ECHR rules or do’s he genuinely mean that if everyone arriving via the RNLI/Coast Guard taxi service was put straight on a coach to Heathrow then a plane to Rwanda this wouldn’t reduce the number of illegal immigrants in the UK and quite possibly deter a lot of people from crossing the Channel?
Jenrick resigned because he wanted to amend the Rwanda bill to add a clause that would somehow make it ‘lawyer proof’, but Rishi would not agree. It seems highly likely that this is what he is referring to.
Rishi’s motivations are a mystery to me. Over-promoted head boy.
I’d guess that the general opinion – upspoken – round the table was it would never be ‘allowed’ to work courtesy of the ECHR rules and other legal challenges. Disgraceful no-one had the courage to have an open discussion about this. Might have made the voting public feel better – anyone could see it was fraught with challenges. Admitting this might have at least opened up a debate. What a shower.
Surely the floating of any idea that ‘might’ work would act as a deterrent? This current lot have just opened the door wider.
https://youtu.be/ynPGEQ6VUbc?si=ChyoQpyuMGtl_W-X
Craig Houston with a short video which suggests that the Southport murderer, alleged, is the son of a leading member of the Rwandan government.
Is that perhaps why the case has only just gone to court? Buried beneath the budget shenanigans?