The Full English with Alexander Brown - Episode 95
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00:00 [Music]
00:28 Hello and welcome to Full English, a show that combines politics with not getting the Rwanda scheme through the courts.
00:33 The same camp course was had for the UK government, who spent £140 million on an asylum processing system that breaks international law.
00:42 Let's get into it.
00:44 This week the Prime Minister suffered yet another blow, as the Supreme Court ruled what charities, lawyers, opposition MPs and human rights experts had already told them.
00:55 The Rwanda scheme is illegal.
00:57 The Supreme Court pointed out the Rwandan government has killed dissidents,
01:01 they sent asylum seekers back to countries where they'd be harmed, and just generally not been very safe or nice.
01:08 Essentially, it is entirely unworkable and the government has sent more journalists to the country than asylum seekers.
01:15 That is expensive lobbying.
01:19 I didn't go though, so it's fine.
01:21 Fear not, Mr Sunak insists, he's going to just simply rework the scheme and designate Rwanda a safe country.
01:27 So that's all fine then.
01:29 He is not, however, going to make Britain leave the European Convention on Human Rights because
01:33 A) it would be grotesque and B) that's not the only international law that blocks the scheme.
01:39 There's just loads and loads of treaties that prevent it.
01:42 Ideally they'd have known that before spending taxpayers' money on it, but, you know, they did.
01:47 They did.
01:49 So what have we learnt?
01:51 Firstly that Sweller-Brathman thinks the government should leave every treaty,
01:54 which actually makes Richard Sunak look an appealing leader by comparison.
01:57 And secondly, running politics and optics rather than the law is a dreadful idea.
02:03 Until next time, I've been Alexander Brown and you haven't.
02:07 [sneezes]
02:10 [music]
02:14 [BLANK_AUDIO]