The UK  Tory Government is acting under the advice of Tony Abbott trying to follow the “Australian Model” to gain political advantage, not do what is regarded as morally or ethically correct. Let’s also remind ourselves the UK like Australia, China, Russia, and Nth Korea has no Universal Bill of Human Rights in it’s Constitution only laws which it now wants to change. Like the Australian LNP, which wanted to rid itself of UNHRC or its Racial Discrimination Acts. Had a Bill of Rights been written both nations’ Constitutions Abbott would have had no impact.

Lord Justice Underhill underlined the lower court’s own admission that the Rwandan government was “intolerant of dissent; that there are restrictions on the right of peaceful assembly, freedom of the press and freedom of speech; and that political opponents have been detained in unofficial detention centres and have been subjected to torture and Article 3 ill-treatment short of torture.”

As a result, Braverman finds herself at sea, struggling to find a port, or centre, to park her own, brittle dogmas. In July, she told the House of Commons that she disagreed “fundamentally” with the view of the court “that Rwanda is not a safe place for refugees.” She went on to say that her government took their “international obligations very seriously and we are satisfied that the provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill comply with the refugee convention. The fundamental principle remains, however, that those in need of protection should claim asylum at the earliest opportunity and in the first safe country they reach.”

Source: Cruel Prerogatives: Braverman on Refugees at the AEI – » The Australian Independent Media Network