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And that price almost certainly doesn’t include the cost of hosting the vulnerable refugee that Rwanda sends to the UK in return.
Article 19: Resettlement of vulnerable refugees
The Parties shall make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom, recognising both Parties’ commitment towards providing better international protection for refugees.
Drax helps the UK government meet its climate targets because, on paper at least, the power station is treated as emission-free. This is because international carbon accounting rules state that greenhouse gas emissions from burning wood are counted in the country where the trees are felled as opposed to where they are burned.
Such bullshit. All the emissions happen here, but they don’t get counted here.
Well maybe the government should stop being so objectionable, and instead represent the people. You know, the thing they’re employed to do.
The great Tory plan to just kill off and thin the heard rather than address the social issues they’ve caused.
The modernisation of the royal palace has long been used to justify increases in the sovereign grant, which was just £31m when it was first introduced in 2012-2013. Under a “golden ratchet” clause in the Sovereign Grant Act, the amount of money handed to the monarch can never fall, even if the crown estate’s profits decrease.
A Treasury spokesperson said: “The grant has been largely unchanged since 2020 and this temporary increase covers the remainder of the Buckingham Palace refurbishment. We will review the grant in 2026, expecting to bring it back down in 2027.”
How can they bring it down in 2027 when there’s this golden ratchet clause that says it never goes down?
There’s a varying grade of obscenity in that category.
Yar har fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright to me!
That’s a completely different handshake, though. Hamilton won the race one Russia, but his handshake still has Putin reaching out at a distance. The OP handshake stops just short of Putin putting his arm around him - they’re much closer together, much more trusting.
Also both of these pictures are from many Yeats ago.
Meanwhile Suella Braverman’s father used to run concentration camps in Kenya. Her family’s business is literally running British concentration camps in Africa, and the core goal of the Tory party in the last couple years has been to reestablish that business, all funded by the taxpayer.
And that’s before we touch on the point that the Rwanda deal is two way. The UK will accept “vulnerable refugees” in exchange for every small boat migrant we send over there.
The taxpayer pays to house them until they can be sent over. The taxpayer pays to send them over. The taxpayer pays to set up the infrastructure over there. The taxpayer pays to send over vulnerable refugees in return. The taxpayer pays to accommodate those refugees (who are far less productive than the ones we send out). Private businesses - particularly those outside the UK tax domain - profit.
