• @HowManyNimons
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    86 months ago

    Hopefully its ignoble failure will dissuade other countries from trying similar schemes. I’m pretty tired of the UK being the testing ground for terrible ideas.

    • *Tagger*
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      56 months ago

      Get out and vote on July 4th, then. Don’t be complacent, don’t let the Tory’s back in.

    • @steeznson
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      26 months ago

      To be fair it was Australia that pioneered this particular idea. Then Israel copied them. I think we’re the third country to try a scheme like this.

      • Hossenfeffer
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        26 months ago

        I mean you could argue we (Brits) did it first by shipping people off to Australia as a deterrent.

        • @steeznson
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          Yeah, their scheme was/is harsher than the Rwanda one, too. I think there are still people being held somewhere in Papa New Guniea who arrived by boat in Australia over a decade ago.