Stop The Rwanda Flights: The People Fight Back
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
With Britain in a cost of living crisis, the Tories have turned on their traditional scapegoats - migrants and refugees. The Conservatives’ policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda - a poor country with a bad human rights record - is just the latest stage of a racist campaign.
But people are fighting back. We went to a mass demonstration outside the Home Office and spoke to MPs like Zarah Sultana and Richard Burgon, refugees and courageous campaigners - and asked whether this despicable policy can be defeated.
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| 0:00.0 | A silent seeker who reached the UK after crossing the English Channel in small boats had to |
| 0:12.7 | be sent to Rwanda in a controversial new immigration deal the two countries will sign off on |
| 0:17.8 | today. |
| 0:18.8 | Under a new scheme, anyone that the government judges to have arrived illegally since |
| 0:23.0 | the 1st of January could be immediately removed to Rwanda. |
| 0:27.2 | If they qualify, they will be able to settle in Rwanda, they won't be able to return |
| 0:31.8 | to the UK. |
| 0:32.8 | Flying in the ministerial jet for a day trip to Rwanda is evidence that pretty Patel thinks |
| 0:37.6 | the policy will prove popular with voters. |
| 0:40.6 | Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not. |
| 0:46.0 | We expect this will be challenged in the courts. |
| 0:50.7 | Hope of an 11th hour approved dashed. |
| 0:56.4 | Tomorrow seven asylum seekers who hope for a better life in the UK will instead be sent |
| 1:01.2 | to Rwanda. |
| 1:02.4 | Appeal court judges ruling that a flight taking them to Gagali can now set off. |
| 1:07.2 | This appeal is dismissed. |
| 1:09.6 | Sainte loud, Sainte clear! |
| 1:13.1 | Let the Jesus welcome him! |
| 1:15.3 | What has happened? |
| 1:16.3 | You are humanity. |
| 1:17.5 | Is this the first thing that's touching the world? |
| 1:20.3 | You're the one who's doing all of this. |
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