BRYAN ROSTRON: Shades of Australia convict move in UK’s Rwanda refugee plan
London is once again behaving like a colonial power with its plan to send asylum seekers to Africa
More than 200 years ago, faced with overcrowded prisons, the British government decided to expel that social problem “beyond the seas” — to Botany Bay. Now the British cabinet also plans to expel a social problem “beyond the seas”, only this time by dispatching unwanted people to one of the smallest and most overcrowded countries in Africa.
It is once again behaving like a colonial power with its plan to send asylum seekers in the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda. Initially Ghana and Kenya were approached but declined to act as colonial-style surrogates. Instead, the UK will now make an initial payment of £120m to Rwanda...
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