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THE UK’S PRINCE Charles has privately expressed his concerns about ongoing plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as the first flight is set to depart on Tuesday.
It comes as a judgement by the UK’s High Court ruled that the deportation flights to Rwanda were allowed, which was welcomed by Home Secretary Priti Patel, while campaign groups vowed to keep fighting against the new policy.
Following the decision of the UK High Court, the way is now paved for the first flight to take place this Tuesday, with up to 130 people being notified that they could be removed.
Currently, 31 people are due on the first flight, the court previously heard.
According to a report from The Times, Charles is said to have called the new policy “appalling” and raised concerns as he will be representing the UK’s Queen Elizabeth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the capital of Rwanda later this month.
The report states that Charles said he was “more than disappointed” with the new policy.
“He said he was more than disappointed at the policy,” reads the report.
“He said he thinks the government’s whole approach is appalling. It was clear he was not impressed with the government’s direction of travel,” the report adds, citing a source close to Charles.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Charles declined to comment on the source’s quotes but said that “he remains politically neutral”.
“Matters of policy are decisions for government,” the spokesperson added.
Despite the High Court’s ruling, Mr Justice Swift granted the claimants permission to appeal, suggesting that judges within the Court of Appeal could hear the case on Monday.
However, Patel and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson both welcomed the ruling yesterday.
“I welcome the court’s decision in our favour, and will now continue to deliver on progressing our world-leading migration partnership,” said Patel.
“People will continue to try and prevent their relocation through legal challenges and last-minute claims, but we will not be deterred in breaking the deadly people-smuggling trade and ultimately saving lives.”
Additional reporting by Press Association
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Can’t get my head around this Patel woman. She is the daughter of emigrants to the UK and she has nothing but contempt for them…..
@HarveyLemonade: Her father stood as a UKIP candidate. He emigrated to the UK in the 60s. Her family genuinely hold these views re immigrants, go figure..
@Ian O’Donovan: ah, that would explain it
@Ian O’Donovan: I believe it is racism pure and simple. Unfortunately of Indian descent were chased out of Uganda in the 1960′s and this seems to be a grudge held against all those of African descent
@Darren Byrne: don’t forget she wanted to stop all food imports to this country from Britain to pressure us into giving into their Brexit demands, bless her little heart.
@Ian O’Donovan: And based on current UK immigration law her own parents wouldn’t qualify for entry.
@James O’Donovan: sure there’s a good qc there that could find that she and her family qualify to be sent to Rwanda
@Ian O’Donovan: she’s trying to prove her Englishness….
@HarveyLemonade: Malcolm Gladwell writes about it in his book Outliers. Believe it or not non white people and immigrants can be racist too. There is a light skin privilege which exists even if people don’t want to admit it.
@Sean McCarthy: Great writer. Data driven social analyses. Top class. I’m reading Talking To Strangers at the moment.
As for Patel. She’s fairly typical typical what happens to people when they get to the top table. Margaret Thatcher was working class and she absolutely despised them.
@Vonvonic: Maggie Thatcher had Irish roots in Kerry lol..
@Vonvonic: Just look at Orly Taitz. Born in Moldova, fixated on proving Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States of America. Even Bill O’Reilly said she was crazy. It’s immigrant patriotism taken to the extreme with a dash of racism thrown in for good measure.
@HarveyLemonade: maybe she realizes the UK can’t absorb infinite economic migrants many of whom don’t have any skills actually required by the UK. Just a thought. Let’s take every Irish boat and sail them down to every port in Africa and take back whoever wants to come. 500 million sure why not! We can feed them with the magic money tree! House them in the magical faerie forts! Yis bleeding hearts are so illogical and immature. Infinite immigration is a disaster.
@v39e84kK: Maybe we could instead, send your hypothetical Irish ships, to pick up every originally unskilled Irish person living in the UK and USA and elsewhere that left Ireland to make a better life, because by your logic, they should all have stayed in their own country and not sought a better life elsewhere…
@Ian O’Donovan: seriously
Its also appaling to spend almost a billion pounds on a jubilee party weekend whilst a lot of the population rely on food banks.
@Brian Dunne: look it made people happy, it gave much needed lighthearted relief to some,
The average Joe soap over there enjoyed it, it’s their business.
@Brian Dunne: that “almost a billion” was pumped into the economy through police, security, soldiers, media correspondents salleries. Also into taxi drivers, public transport services, memorabilia producers & retailers, hotel accommodation, litter pickers, event specialists, the list goes on and on.. It’s not like the money was removed from circulation. This has supported many many jobs and has given a lift to the UK public. Don’t be so begrudging without giving time to consider the wider impact.
Why doesn’t he invite a few refugee families into Buckingham Palace then? Or why doesn’t he let some of them stay at his mansions that he only visits a few times a year. Or better yet why doesn’t he use some of his billions to build state of the art refugee centres on all the thousands of acres of land his family owns?
Stay out of the politics and go back to wearing your fancy clothes and smiling at the cameras.
@Vestigial: I’ve just started a new website. It’s called Rants.ie. I think you’d like it.
@Vestigial: Chill out a small bit. They’re his private views that were leaked ffs.
I don’t ever agree with this man but actually here he’s quite right.
“We will not be deterred in breaking the deadly people smuggling trade”. So they deport the people ,most of whom will start again to get to Europe and the UK using the same smugglers who are raking in the money from these people and who are getting away with it
@Stephen Kelly: No I don’t think so. Africans aren’t idiots. If they know that upon reaching the UK they are going to be sent to Rwanda then they won’t pay the smugglers in the first place. Theyay decide to go to other EU countries. I doubt many will try to cross the channel for a chance to be sent to Rwanda.
Strange how any comments supporting the UKs policy on this issue have been removed…
Somebody can’t keep a secret
Says a bloke who doesn’t even put the toothpaste on his toothbrush
He should be made stand aside from the Royal line, the Royals are not to interfere in government business. The Queen and her heirs are only figureheads.
It is so racist fot the UK to treat people this, way, just absolutely appalling
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