MEDIA LIES: Mind boggling dishonesty from Murdoch rag to save Sunak!

Right, so if there’s anyone in desperate need of a good headline right now it’s Rishi Sunak, especially as large chunks of the country prepare to go to the polls tomorrow for local elections widely expected to be an absolute drubbing for them, set to work out even worse than perhaps expected given the seats up for grabs were last contested under the height of Boris Johnson’s popularity, but of course the absurdly rich, out of touch and completely mandateless and unelected Prime Minister is staking everything this year, looking more ahead to a General Election, or perhaps running away from the thought of one, on Rwanda. And in that vein, the Murdoch Scum rag, as we on the left prefer to call it, the scum, because after all the Sun is something warm and bright and shiny, yet the paper named after it, is a bleak pit of despair where the truth goes to die, that shares more in common with something frothy and stinky being discharged into the sea by Thames Water.
They are publishing a piece talking about the first asylum seeker having been deported to Rwanda, but the truth of this matter is anything but what the Scum are telling us.
Right, so The Murdoch Scum have gone full grift for Rishi Sunak it seems, grifting harder than Captain Tom’s family, desperately floundering around in their own filth to try and find a good news story, a positive headline for the pathetic PM, currently enjoying a popularity rating amongst the British populace akin to somewhere, so dark, dank, smelly and horrible, even the cockroaches have moved out.
So what have the Scum coughed up on their pages to help little Rishi out with then? Rwanda. Let’s peddle a story about Rwanda and what an opportunity befell the Scum’s top floater masquerading as a journalist, Harry Cole, who thankfully put out a tweet so I didn’t have to risk burning my retinas looking at the pages of said publication, not that I would have done, because I flat refuse to ever use that hate rag as any kind of referenced in my work whatsoever and if you think I’m perhaps being a bit harsh to Cole in my description there, when he’s the sort of person who looks so adoringly as this at Boris Johnson of all people, I think it tells you everything you need to know. At any rate he put out a tweet saying:
‘EXCLUSIVE: Britain has removed the first failed asylum seeker to Rwanda, the S*n can reveal… The unnamed migrant was flown out of the UK on Monday evening. Historic moment as first time UK has relocated a failed asylum seeker to a third country.’
There’s a good reason it’s an exclusive though isn’t there Harry? That would be because it is a complete fabrication and lie and when I don’t need to go any further than the BBC of all sources to disprove this claim of yours, you know the entire story is grubby, dishonest gutrot. If not for a piece the BBC actually put out in March, I’d almost go so far as to say they’ve exposed the Scum’s lies because Sunak didn’t go to them first, but on the other had, so few people are I think taken in by government claims regarding Rwanda any more, that even BBC recognises, it isn’t in its best interests to go this far for the government.
Right, so first, let’s pick out the one honest thing in this tweet, which is the person in question that has gone to Rwanda was a failed asylum seeker. That’s it, the rest is rubbish.
The asylum seeker in question, was not removed to Rwanda, they were paid to go there. Yes, we paid them to go there. This person, who will have presumably risked their life to get here by small boat, because there is no legal alternative route to get here unless you’re from somewhere the government has a special deal with Ukraine certainly, Afghanistan supposedly, but not really in practice, has failed in their asylum claim for whatever reason, we don’t know, and as part of a voluntary scheme – so not the Rwanda deportation Bill at all, it has nothing to do with that, this is a completely separate deal – the government have now handed over £3000 of public money to get this person to go to Rwanda. Only Rishi Sunak could manage to unite both rotten lefties and frothing right wing migrant bashers over the stupidity of this plan. For the lefty like me, it’ll always disgust me that there is no legal asylum route, that the government thinks being so abjectly cruel to people who got here for whatever reason and failed in their asylum application, but if their country of origin is a safe one and by that I mean actually safe not just legislated as such like Rwanda, they should be returned there. For me, where is the logic of paying these people £3,000? For the right winger, they’ll have been looking perhaps at the cost of the Rwanda scheme already, nearly half a billion spent on deporting people, of which none have yet been deported and here is the government spending even more money to pay people to go there! Worse, when the BBC reported on this last month, as I alluded to a moment ago, they reported that the Tory business minister Kevin Hollinrake had said that this is a good use of public money and that he didn’t think the appeal of a free three grand would encourage people to come here. I tell you what Kev, I bet it does! Think of what they might be paying the people traffickers, if they get here they can either claim asylum, or at least get some of their money back before going to Africa! What planet were these people born on? Funnily enough Hollinrake’s comments were reported in the Times following an interview on Times Radio, so this was the Murdoch press in March, via the Times saying one thing and this month, saying the scheme is something else entirely. They don’t report the news, they try to shape public opinion, it’s no wonder Murdoch loves to claim he picks the Prime Minister at every General Election is it?
The other absolute whopper of a claim by Harry Cole in his tweet there was that this was an historic first in the UK relocating a failed asylum seeker to a third country. It isn’t and isn’t anything close to being true. Last year alone, 19,253 people were voluntarily removed from the UK and of these 3,319 received a reintegration package or paid flights by the Home Office. As far as this Rwanda voluntary scheme goes, there appears to be no limit on it as to how many people annually will qualify, nor is there any timeframe set within which these voluntary deportations would happen in either.
Also if the Tories were so interested in value for money, of the 5,700 potential Rwanda deportees they’ve identified, apparently only 2,143 continue to report to the Home Office. They have no idea where the rest are, so you, know, perhaps try finding them instead of paying others to leave eh?
Now the Tories are still trying to claim this as a success story incidentally. Kemi Badenoch, a woman who signed off on renewal of arms licences to Israel a week after three British aid workers were killed, so evidently not someone with a reputation for being anything other than utterly cold blooded, has been bleating that people taking up the deal proves Rwanda is a safe country, but actually all it proves is you can send these people anywhere and they’d be happy because they’d have three grand of public money in their pockets, people who could be trying to get back for second helpings at some point in future perhaps at that. Yet flip that on its head and a lot of people have instead of taking the money, been seeking legal assistance instead to fight having to make that choice, which also implies if this was such a good idea, why have more people not gone, after all, so far, only one person has and this scheme opened up when the BBC reported on it, back in March.
It’s a stunt, it’s a poor attempt at PR and people should once more be reminded why so many of us in this country say, do not look at the S*n, it’ll make you go blind and I’m not talking about the big, glowing ball of gas in the sky either. They’d have you believe Sunak’s plan is working, using people’s misfortune as spin for the very government heaping out the cruelty. Frankly if you buy that hateful rag, you’re as bad as the people who write for it.
But if you think £3,000 is value for money to send these people away, I can just imagine some of the comments writing themselves at this point, perhaps watch this video recommendation here on the costs of Sunak’s Rwanda scheme and this pay to leave scheme running alongside it now being added on top. It’s your money after all that they are spending, public money, you might want to know the scale of the waste on this and remember that Sunak has bet the house on this scheme to save his backside and just how badly he’s likely to fail because of that and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.