Moggy wrote:Mr Mitchell, the highest-ranking Foreign Office official in the Commons, insisted that Rwanda could keep asylum seekers from the UK safe without verification by an independent body.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "Some of the discussions that have gone on in the Lords about the judicial arrangements, the legal arrangements within Rwanda, have been patronising and in my view border on racism."
He described the regime in Rwanda had made a "remarkable" turnaround over the last 30 years after nearly being "completely destroyed by the genocide".
"Kigali is arguably safer than London," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68871847
"What's that? You oppose deporting people to Rwanda? You racist! What's wrong with sending victims of slavery to a country where the President received 98.8% of the vote? Just shows how awesome he is! Good luck in London by the way, it's more dangerous than a place that has a recent history of genocide you patronising bastards!"
The same Mitchell that called the police "plebs"?
EDIT: Yes, him.
His track record on being right about Rwanda: he sent £16m in aid at a time when Rwanda was funding rebels in the DRC.
On his final day as International Development Secretary, Mitchell authorised the payment of £16 million of previously suspended aid to Rwanda, half of Britain's annual aid to Rwanda. The aid had been suspended in July, along with other governments' aid, over concerns about Rwanda's alleged support of the rebel March 23 Movement in east Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mitchell's successor stopped further aid payments as Rwanda had breached agreements, and following the publication of a United Nations Security Council investigators' report which provided evidence that Rwanda had supplied guns, money and recruits to the rebels contrary to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1807, and engaged directly in combat to help the rebels capture territory.
The International Development Select Committee launched an inquiry into the suspending, then subsequent authorisation, of budget support to Rwanda.On 30 November 2012 the committee published its report criticising Mitchell for restoring the funding, stating "We do not understand how [Mitchell] reached the conclusion that support for the M23 had ceased", which was one of the three conditions that the Prime Minister had set for the resumption of aid.