Cleverly says aide described Rwanda policy as ‘crap’ for ‘dramatic effect’
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- James Cleverly has claimed his parliamentary aide was making a “counterintuitive statement” for dramatic effect when he described the Rwanda policy as “crap”.
The Home Secretary said James Sunderland was supportive of the policy and its deterrent effect, but was making a point to grab the attention of his audience.
In a recording passed to the BBC, Mr Sunderland is heard telling a private event his thoughts on the plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to the African country.
Mr Sunderland, who is standing for re-election in Bracknell, said: “The policy is crap, OK? It’s crap.”
According to the BBC, in the recording from a Young Conservatives event in April Mr Sunderland continued by defending the plan and saying it would deter migrants from attempting to cross the Channel.
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the only person going to Rwanda is cleverly when is kicked out
He should know , he's Full of it !
This guy is so undeserving of his surname ! Lol
not so cleverly done
My local MP & he knows he’s time is running out 😂
Actually he's not your MP now, as there are no MP's during a general election. They lose their job when Parliament is dissolved, and have to canvass for votes in the hope of getting it back as opposed to remaining an MP.
Absolute joke and a total waste of space
I just wonder whether any sane person actually believes that the people smuggling give a s**t about what happens to the migrants after they put to sea in a little pee green boat - more likely brown! These migrants probably suffered crossing the Med or the Aegean or the east Atlantic so a 22mile crossing that then may or may not, as far as they know, mean a trip to Rwanda. I suspect that many of them haven't even heard of the policy so its unlikely to be a deterrent. I just wish the politicians would wake up and smell the coffee.
Cleverly - in name only.
Indian pm issues record India visas, he has cost nearly all of you your jobs.
Just like he’s called a minister as a joke.
Yes, but did cleverly do anything about the date rap drugs people ? Wasn't he put in charge of?
He thinks date rape drugs are funny , he joked about slipping his wife some and was recorded ,hope he doesn’t have daughters
This pathetic policy is simply fascist grandstanding. In what way are the smuggling gangs put off by the possibility that the people who pay up front to be boated across the channel may be sent to Rwanda? Its ludicrous.
Hold on , another comment below just said the conservative traitors are right wing , you say fascist . Are they right wing or more fascist communist ideology
Rwanda "policy" is totally useless and cruel . They should instead be paying for these illegal immigrants to get back home safely to their families .
So James Cleverly is basically saying the chances of dying crossing the channel are is less dissuasive than going to Rwanda. This is utterly moronic. The one policy which will probably stop people crossing is to open safe routes through France, but that doesn't sound tough and the right likes to sounding tough, rather than do something practical.
There's plenty of safe routes through Europe, that's how they get to France. Travelling through numerous safe countries, ending up in a safe country, then risking your life making a dangerous crossing. Can you see the problem there?
Maybe he said it was a shithole...
Lmao poor man chocking on his on reply and they can’t defend anything anymore
How to defend the indefensible. Not.
Bring it Mr. Home Secretary. Let those across the channel feel the shockwave. It's real right?
Far right.
@fritzdrybeam Not far right. Just right.
😂 🤥