Nigel Farage has said the government deserves some credit for deporting illegal migrants from the country but said he believes the government is still in ‘desperate trouble’.
Farage also said he believed the trouble would now just start for the government and predicted that judges would rule in favour of international agreements such as the ECHR rather than the Safety of Rwanda Act.
Speaking on GB News, Nigel Farage said: “Just to get a sense of perspective on this: this is somebody who illegally came to Britain, wasn't granted asylum which is unusual of itself, and is then given £3000 of taxpayers money to voluntarily board a plane to Rwanda, where he'll be able to live for five years without rent and in a country where three grand goes a long way.
“And it's ludicrous to link that the Rwanda plan that was set up by Boris Johnson two years ago.
“This government is in desperate trouble, dire trouble; predictions of perhaps, in this coming general election, the worst results ever, in their nearly 200 years of existence.
“And Sunak knows this issue of people illegally crossing our borders and being allowed to stay is driving voters, particularly the red wall, mad. So the fact that today they've started rounding up a few people and detaining them, on the face of it, you have to give them credit for.
“I mean, several years too late, but on the face of it, let's give them credit.
“I suspect this is where the problems are just beginning. We will see all sorts of other people on that list simply disappear off into the community and be virtually impossible to find.
“And for those that we do have in detention and plan to take care of and that is when the lawyers and the judges will kick in. We are still signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights. We've incorporated it into British law by the Human Rights Act. And whatever the Rwanda Act says, in terms of it taking supremacy over the Human Rights Act, I would tell you that when this comes to court, British judges will rule in favour of our international agreements.
“So it's all well and good, sounding tough, but can you actually deliver and I still really, really doubt it.
“It may well be that disapplying those sections of the Human Rights Act works in British law. But we are still a signatory to an international treaty via that court in Strasbourg, and I just don't see a Conservative Prime Minister overruling a judgment of that court.
“Do you know what, if he did, half of his own party would be in rebellion. Many, many Conservatives support us being part of that European convention. Now, if he does it, it'd be very brave and bold, but I believe that an international treaty is what will take precedence and I think our judges and ultimately, our Supreme Court would rule that way.
“Look, I hope I'm wrong. I'm sick to death how every month we see of these young men, undocumented young males of fighting age coming into our country about whom we know nothing of their backgrounds and their histories.
“I hope he can solve it. I just don't believe all the while we're part of that treaty, that it actually can happen and really, Brexit should have been about leaving this particular treaty as well. Sadly, it wasn't.
“I don't doubt amongst some of those that are crossing the English Channel, there are some genuinely fleeing persecution. But the wholesale abuse of our generosity, people pretending they're under 18 when they're in their 30s. People claiming to convert to Christianity from Islam, which of course we know they're not actually doing. People claiming they're gay, and therefore can't be sent back to the country that they claim to originally come from.
“The whole thing is a complete and utter racket. And I'd remind people since 2016, we have taken in half a million refugees. They've come from Hong Kong, they've come from Afghanistan, they’ve come back from Ukraine and elsewhere.
“It's not as if we’re not the most generous country out there because we are. What we cannot allow is for human traffickers to put people in danger is to cross the English Channel. 90% of them are male, 80% of them are very young males.
“This has got to stop and the only way we're going to stop it is by not being part of that European convention and by saying that nobody that comes via this route will ever be allowed to stay.
“That is what Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia did, back in 2013. Within two weeks, the boats stopped coming. That is the only way we're ever going to solve this and I believe that right from the start.”
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