'The game of parliamentary ping pong is happening once again,' claims Farage

'The game of parliamentary ping pong is happening once again,' claims Farage

Nigel Farage shared his opinion

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Nigel Farage

By Nigel Farage


Published: 22/04/2024

- 21:04

Rishi Sunak gave a speech about the Rwanda Bill this morning

That game of parliamentary ping pong is happening once again. Yes, the House of Commons and the House of Lords voting.

The next big vote, I believe in the House of Lords at 10pm this evening, and the House of Commons will then vote two hours later. Will the peers back down?


Will they do as the elected House by a very clear majority wants?

Well, that remains to be seen.

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Nigel Farage shared his thoughts on the Rwanda bill

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Those of you who watch my show regularly will know I did pretty much predict the House of Lords would make this as difficult as they possibly could.

So nothing on that is very surprising.

But I'll tell you what was surprising, the speech today by Rishi Sunak, standing behind the lectern with Stop the Boats written on it.

Bear in mind it's now more than two years since Boris Johnson went to an airport in Kent and unveiled the Rwanda plan. So far, we've spent over £150million and not a single person has gone.

Did you hear that? 'No foreign court will stop us from getting these flights off', as indeed the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg did last time around. Now, that is a very bold statement for the British Prime Minister to make.

Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak vowed to stop the boats

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He's basically saying whatever is said by that court in Strasbourg, we are simply going to ignore it.

But he knows that half his own party, certainly half his own MPs, would be appalled by that because they think the European Court of Human Rights is a good thing.

What he didn't tell you is, that even if we were to ignore the European Court of Human Rights, which I believe to be very unlikely indeed, we'd still have something called the Human Rights Act of 1998 which incorporated the very convention that is used by that court in Strasbourg into British law, which would be used by British judges.

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This idea that those planes are going to Rwanda in 10 to 12 weeks, come what may, folks, believe me, it isn't going to happen.

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