#the fucking rwanda scheme

[octarineblues]

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[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Tories are U.K. Republicans and they’re exactly the same.

[hassanfield]

jokes aside my heart goes out to everyone this winter who has to choose between foods or their heating

[ayeforscotland]

the u.k. is in a fucking abysmal place rn how the hell do u not fall into doomerism

Oh I just bottle it up and have private breakdowns.

Seeing stories about Sunak making that £1000 bet on Rwanda deportations, seeing energy company bosses rolling in bonuses while people struggle to pay their utilities, seeing people struggling for rent whilst rich scammers offer 'property masterclasses' to them as a get rich quick scheme - it's hard not to feel a sense of doom.

Instead I feel an immense anger, and, not to get too real™️, but I'm more angry than I've ever felt in my life. I'm trying to deal with it in a healthy way, but it's really fucking hard.

[misschinablue]

welcome to the UK, where world leading healthcare is free at the point of use! hopefully you don't need it though. underfunding and shitty management of the public health sector by non clinicians mean you could wait up to six months for an urgent referral. hope all your organs are in good working order because you could die waiting if they're not :) and god forbid you should need to see a GP or a practice nurse for something more minor - the demand highly outweighs the supply and you'll be engaging in the hunger games to maybe get a 10 minute telephone appointment in September 2026 :) mental health suffering? well you are shit out of luck my friend - again, demand far outweighs supply - everything has been cut down to less than the absolute bare minimum - and the criteria for services is sky high now. make a cup of tea and take the crisis line number. you'll be fine right?

welcome to the UK, one of the richest economies in the world! how is it then that living standards are as low as they were in the 1970s, what with the old cossie lives and wages that were already laughably meagre now completely out of sync with how fucking expensive everything is?? i know you worked hard to get your education and onto your graduate scheme and did everything society asked of you to make it in life, but things are different now so here's your mouldy room in a shared house where the rent is a million pounds a month and lol what disposable income aren't you just happy to have a roof of your head?? stop going to Costa every morning for your soy triple shot vanilla latte you entitled little shit! it's not like we've had 14 years of complete mismanagement of the economy or anything! ps. aren't you so tired of hearing that it's all your fault?

welcome to the UK, where we have a welfare system designed to help people.in need, I.e. those out of work and those too sick to work! but good luck accessing that too. and if you want to try - LMFAO! oh honey no one LIKES working. but all this pretending to be too unwell to work ain't fooling anyone! come on mate drop that defeatist attitude and get on indeed.com. none of your conditions are even real. stop using your multiple sclerosis/depression/long covid/terminal cancer as an excuse. fucking sickness culture in this country. the high rates of mental illness especially have no obvious cause at all do they?

welcome to the UK, a tiny country that prides itself on tolerance and has historically seen great benefits to the economy and culturally from immigration! but god forbid we make this an easy place to live for trans people! this Woke has gone too far! and oh my GOD aren't all these refugees SO annoying?! they clearly just want to come here for the free healthcare (you know that non existent thing) and to get welfare benefits (you know asylum seekers aren't entitled to benefits apart from a pittance allowance from the home office right?) and they're absolutely not braving a life threatening journey to escape horrific conditions and persecution in their own country. but whatever. not our problem. off to Rwanda with you. human rights are stupid lmao. empathy? compassion? never heard of her.

welcome to the UK, where we support genocide and saying certain things in opposition of it is actually fucking illegal. i wish i was kidding.

welcome to the UK, where nothing works and everyone is sad.

welcome to the UK. god i fucking hate it here.

british tumblr - even if you don't think it will make a difference, even if you recognise there is just a lesser of two evils here, even if you don't trust any of them, even if you're fucked off and burnt out, i am BEGGING you to vote to get these absolute cretins out of power. we cannot have another five years under tory rule. there will be nothing left.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

It's the magical part that super annoys me.

Every part about the scheme annoys me, but the assertion that this will somehow foster national pride and unity and instill a sense of 'purpose' into young people really, really, really fucking annoys me.

How! Fucking how, Rishi? How does that happen?! Things don't just happen because you say they'll happen! Especially not things like unity and pride! You can't just conjure those up! They need actual work! They need a certain level of fucking comprehension, Rishi! You need to know what they mean!

It's the fucking Rwanda scheme all over again!

Oh, it'll stop the boats. Those boats? It'll stop them.

How! Fucking how! How! Explain how! Show me how! Don't just say it will, show me how! Explain how! Don't repeat yourself, explain how! Put it on paper so I can see how!

YOU CAN'T, BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING RAZZLE-DAZZLE!

[libertineangel]

For people who don't know, one of the flagship policies of the current British government is to ship asylum seekers & illegal immigrants off to Rwanda. This has, however, never actually fucking happened, because before the first flight even took off it was challenged in court, on the grounds that Rwanda's own asylum seeker policy can't be guaranteed not to ship people back to countries that want them dead and so the entire scheme is a breach of human rights law.

The British Supreme Court issued its final ruling on the challenge this afternoon, finding it correct, thoroughly killing one of this government's only concrete ideas.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is giving a press conference about it right now, in which he has revealed his new strategy on getting this plan to work: Just Pretend It's Fine :)

He wants to "introduce emergency legislation" that legally declares Rwanda a safe third country, so that "foreign courts" (the European Court of Human Rights, who could also challenge this if he tries to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling) can't stop him from knowingly shipping innocent people off to their deaths.

Something tells me this is not going to work.

[thessalian]

Thess vs This Fucking Country

Things that are happening in This Fucking Country:

Organised a multinational statement which is supposed to commit to the fundamental rights of women and girls, got 22 countries to sign it, and then stripped out references to “sexual and reproductive health services” and “bodily autonomy” after they got the signatures (and so far only anti-abortion Malta has signed it since), which indicates we’re priming ourselves to go the way of the US Supreme Court’s recent decision as re: Roe v Wade

Record high temperatures and resultant wildfires (which some Conservative bods are blaming on “someone dropping a cigarette”, which ... I mean, repeatedly? All over the country? Are you high?!?) while government shies away from meeting its own net zero commitments

NHS on its knees and the paltry raise NHS staff are getting is not getting a commensurate increase to the NHS budget, meaning the NHS is on the hook for cuts to pay for their staff being able to live (barely)

The ‘help’ the government is offering insofar as insanely high energy costs are concerned is overcomplicated and doesn’t always work (I speak from experience here)

And that’s just the beginning. But are the two Tory Party leader hopefuls focusing on any of this? No. Know what they’re really concerned about?

Outdoing each other on how far to expand the insane, cruel, and currently illegal scheme to send refugees to Rwanda

There are no words for how shitty my mood is right now. I’m in significant I HATE EVERYTHING mode, mostly because I’m stuck in this fucking country with no respite or reprieve. At least payday’s Wednesday, and my GP was kind enough to organise my meds increase so that I only have to fill the prescription once every two months, which should save me some money in the long run. (Also means I only have to take one normal-sized pill per day instead of 4-5 tiny-ass pills.)

Also ... why did this country have to wait until after I developed a gluten intolerance to import Wendy’s? I MISS WENDY’S BUT I CAN’T HAVE IT. Well. Maybe I can have a Frosty.

Hmm. Hang on.

*Googles*

...........COPYCAT FROSTY RECIPE.

Still waiting until payday for that one, but I have a hand mixer; why not? Ingredients for that can go on the list along with the fixings for fruit leather, dill pickles, and pickled ginger at minimum, along with appropriate mason jars. I’m also considering whether I want to invest in a toaster (cheaper way to heat up frozen potato waffles, and toasting is about the only way to make most gluten-free bread halfway edible) or an air fryer (more overall uses, but also more expensive). Also at this point I’m going to need a multi-plug socket for the kitchen whatever I do - I’m already struggling with lack of power outlets with the appliances I have. Not that all these things don’t make my life easier, which is incredibly important given my current limitations. It’s just that ... okay, my kitchen is tiny and has a limited amount of counter space. I already had to shuffle things around to accommodate my dehydrator, and it means that not only do I have to bring my rice cooker out from one of the cabinets before I can use it, but it means I have to unplug either the dehydrator or the kettle to plug it in. And both power outlets are in a corner so it’s a bugger to reach. So ... power strip. At least it’ll make unplugging things a little easier.

Right. I think I need to find something that will allow me to vent frustration. At the very least I am well-stocked with coffee and video games. I just have to find the spoons to pick something, and hope it’s the right something.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

BBC News: Rwanda asylum seekers: UK could send first people 'within weeks'

BBC News - Rwanda asylum seekers: UK could send first people 'within weeks'

It's so fucking infuriating that the focus is always on "stopping the boats" by any means necessary but nobody ever says hmmm maybe open the tunnel to refugees, on purpose. Would it really be so much worse to cut out death as the middleman? The refugees will come either way, and even if their lives mean nothing to you, at least less would be spent on water patrols.

But the reality is that NO government gives a single shit about the dangers the refugees are facing, they instead want to INCREASE the danger, because they're still in the mode of thinking where you're born should determine your opportunities, your quality of character, or even weather you live or die. Any method these people use to save themselves is relentlessly demonized, as if they chose to be in this situation.

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[sortyourlifeoutmate]

Alright so, there's a lot of little angles to this and they all sort of rush through my brain at once so let me try and lay them out in something like an order.

The Tories are in a bad place. We're all very happy about this. The Tories themselves, however, are reacting to their looming, inevitable defeat by basically frothing at the mouth and screaming. One the one hand you have them scrabbling for every attention-grabbing idea they can lay their hands on like how someone sliding towards a cliff might scrabble for something to stop them falling to their death.

Uh, Angela Rayner did, uh, a thing! Uh, Rwanda! Yeah! Immigrant on a plane to Rwanda! Uh, fuck, uh, benefits! Sick note Britain, yeah! One of these has to got work, right? Right?! Please God one of these has to work!

So that's happening. And alongside that, you have the internal conflict of which of them gets to be King Rat of the Sinking Ship. You know, the dregs of the dregs racing to slit one another's throat to be the one in charge.

Speaking of which, Penny Mordaunt.

Basically, what set me off was an interview she has apparently done wherein which she said the UK simply must invest the Iron Dome system or something of nature of ward off attacks like the one what Iran did against Israel. And, like...

Okay.

Here's an actual pull quote:

She told The Sunday Telegraph: “To those that say about our defence ambitions ‘we can’t do, shouldn’t do or can’t afford to do’, I say ‘look to Israel’ – a nation a fraction of our size, that has staved off an attack from a nation 10 times its size.

One. Israel is much smaller then the UK. Like, much smaller. The area they have to possibly defend is smaller and, also, more concentrated. The economics involved in scaling up a system like Iron Dome to defend the whole of the UK blows my mind - especially as it's a system designed to counteract a specific security threat we don't have!

But we'll get to that.

Two, it doesn't really fucking matter that Iran is bigger than Israel, does it? They weren't invading, they were firing a lot of drones and shit. Iran may be physically bigger and more populous than Israel but Israel's military budget (and level of development, and investment) kicks the shit out of Iran's. So who gives a fuck if Iran is bigger when that wasn't even a factor?

Three, not to do down Israel's military prowess (not for nothing do people buy their shit) but having heaps of military assets from heaps of allies (including us!) in the area to provide support probably didn't fucking hurt and, in fact, explicitly helped because it's been stated that it helped!

And look, fuck...

It's a nothingburger, I'm aware. She's just taking the current issue of "Oh the world is a dangerous place and we need to defend our citizens rahrah!" that is seen as important here and the "Oh look, Iran attacked Israel!" and mashing them together, but it's such an incoherent, stupid position it hurts my brain.

Who. Who would be attacking us Penny? Were they be attacking us from? Iran is not that far from Israel in the scheme of things. Who do we have nearby who would do this to us, Penny? We make jokes about Europe and the Irish but those jokes aren't going to translate into actual drone attacks, Penny. What the fuck are you talking about, Penny? Do you have something in mind?

Maybe we could use the money that might go into your batshit insane useless fucking waste of an idea and, I don't know, get some dentists?

Seriously, where would a massive drone and missiles attack on the UK come from? I know we live in the future but not that far in the future.

And she's not the only one!

Admiral Lord West, the former First Sea Lord, said: “The bottom line is that if we had 300 missiles fired at us, we wouldn’t be able to repel them in the way that Israel did, albeit with help from the US, the Jordanians and so on. We have nothing like the Iron Dome and I think there is a need for us to ensure we have that.”

What in the fuck are you talking about.

You know when it snowed a few years back and all the flights got cancelled and people were like "Well in Finland this never happens" and it was like, yeah, because this happens all the time so they plan around it. Israel has the Iron Dome for very specific reasons. Is Israel prepared for a volcano erupting? No? Because that's not a concern and so why would they fucking waste their time and money on it? Oh, fancy that!

Argh! What is wrong with you people?!

The things you're saying are stupid! The situations you're conjuring up are stupid! Or am I just losing my mind?!

I'm so tired!

Why can't you people just lose and go away already?!

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

There are a lot of issues simply inherent to the Rwanda scheme, obviously, but the thing that annoys me most about it is the insistence from the government and its various proponents that it is effective, a position based entirely on them saying it’s effective.

They have to, of course, because if it wasn’t effective what would be the point of putting so much effort into it? But since it isn’t in effect, and hasn’t been in effect, any arguments on how it’ll help “Smash the people traffickers” or whatever are backed up by, well, what? Numbers you pulled out of thin air? Wishful thinking? A dream you had?

Which makes it annoying to engage with, because you have legitimate arguments about how it is just a bad policy in and of itself, up against counter-arguments which hinge on how good it will be at solving problems, and no-one seems to ever take it upon themselves to point out that maybe your proposed solution won’t solve those problems you say you want to solve.

You know?

Like, here are two very bad examples.

Remember how in those Marvel films you got Mr Thanos and his population reduction scheme? Everyone is always very keen to point out how it isn’t very nice (and also to try and punch him) but I can’t recall a single moment where anyone mentions to him how it is, at its core, just a bad idea with no long-term prospect of succeeding at solving what he wants it to. It’s all “You’re a monster!” with a distinct absence of “You’re an idiot!”

(For real though your issue is resource scarcity and you have a fucking spaceship? Too many mouths? Sir, you can go to space. You have a wish granting glove. But whatever, yes, Thanos, death, I get it, shush.)

Even more inappropriately as a comparison you have Benjamin Netanyahu getting shirty and saying that you can’t say you want Hamas eliminated and support a ceasefire, when you obviously can because what he’s suggesting is that what they’re doing right now is working, which is based on…

…amount of rubble and bodies produced, I guess?

And it’s like in all of these cases you have someone saying “It is like this” and presenting one bad solution based on a bad understanding of the issues and the battle happens on that ground, rather than on better ground elsewhere. You know?

PS: The whole Rwanda scheme is a flashy gimmick from the start anyway, no better than building a border wall. It’s meant to look as if the government is taking bold action, when real bold action would probably look a lot less bold, be made up of a lot more things you mostly wouldn’t see, and require a little less malice. So that won’t happen.

And, like, migration has so many outside contributing factors and just…

…fuck.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

And PS, let us not forget how awful Suella Braverman is. I mean, fuck. Shit. Fuck.

The British Empire was a force for good, Suella? Sure, why not.

Individual rights are overrated and have failed and what we actually need is an emphasis on duty? Yeah, that sounds good, sure, fine, not worrying at all.

A trade deal with India might lead to a surge in Indian migrants who might then overstay their visas? I guess that’s technically a concern? I guess?

Ah yes, and the ‘Send asylum seekers to Rwanda’ scheme she’s a big fan of, forgot about that. Surprised she hasn’t proposed just machinegunning the boats crossing the channel. Maybe she’s waiting for Rishi to settle in before suggesting it.

What really cooks my noodle though is that, with all that, she’s apparently a Buddhist?

I know people can (and do) believe a selection of often quite contradictory things and often have selection of fascinating reasons and excuses for why it all hangs together, but this seems a doozy to me. I know Buddhism expresses a belief in the existence of suffering, it just seems odd you’d be so enthusiastic about being a cause of that suffering, Suella.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

The fucking gall of Boris and Co to characterise the lawyers mounting legal challenges to the "Send asylum seekers to Rwanda" scheme as 'leftie lawyers' who just want taxpayer money.

And not, you know, fucking lawyers taking issues with you doing something illegal. AKA their fucking JOB.