James Cleverly - Secretary of State for the Home Department.
I can’t think of another politician with such an inappropriate name.
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Seems there is a lot of it going around!
My student was telling me about young non-Muslim slang use of “Wallahi” as expression of surprise and incredulity. I was a little worried and suggested to him that using “I swear by God” in jest might get him into trouble in the wrong quarters. Maybe not. I’m not au fait with trends.
Because they think it is of the moment.
Too stupid to even think of its origins.
The hard right of the Tory party have joined with the moderates in agreeing that voting for what they actually believe in is a stupid option compared to voting for any old shit that’ll keep them in power for another few days. What more would one expect? 
This is all a complete waste of parliamentary time and taxpayers money because Labour will scrap the policy next year probably before anyone gets sent to Rwanda.
However, countries across Europe are toughening immigration rules with many sending illegal migrants back from whence they came including France.
Hence the popular “where’s Wallahi” books.
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There’s a long history of curses invoking God being used as swear words, Gor blimey being a prime example.
To most, it’s just a word.
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My brother who’s very laid back and has worked in international resto kitchens for most of his life is appalled by the colourful (and it has to be said very inventive) demotic language used by his fellow villagers in NW Spain. Apparently phrases like , ‘May God s**t on your bastard mother’s grave’ are very common responses to the most trivial of slights or mishaps
Oh yes. Along with I sh*t in your mother’s milk, and the words coño and joder used as punctuation.
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UK government still trying to send refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda. Payments from UK used for…….
How is this deportation to Rwanda idea still even under discussion?
We saw a guy wearing a jersey yesterday which had a “Visit Rwanda” badge on the arm. We couldn’t see who the jersey supported but it appears… it’s Arsenal. Arsenal’s by name Arseh… by nature.
Which would tie in with this…
Rwandan leader went to Arsenal game as country marked 30 years since genocide | Rwanda | The Guardian’%20notice%20of%20his%20visit.
Are there no scum the Tory Government. won’t dance with?
It is very hard for us to understand. Maybe
Although, I still adamantly feel the UK shouldn’t be palming off would-be immigrants and asylum seekers to any other country.
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in… er, Rwanda
Heathrow Wednesday morning. Avoid Terminal 4 no matter what you do, you never know where you might end up.
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- but I think the flights will go from somewhere like Brize Norton so that the Government can button things up tight against the inevitable protestors. And probably the planes will be supplied by some tin-pot charter airline from Kazakhstan or somewhere - none of the mainstream airlines will touch Rwanda deportation flights with a twenty-foot cargo conveyor, they don’t want the bad publicity or the potential to be sued for helping an abuse of human rights.
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No doubt.
Rwanda’s on a big tourist attraction gig at the moment. Vedi Rwandi e poi muori, as von Goethe might have written, though not in a good way 
It really is disgusting that some people (tories) can simultaneously consider Britain (read England) as a World power while outsourcing their refugee problem to a tinpot dictator.
only about 12 volts nowadays I think. Just two aircraft carriers neither of which work properly (and which have to fly American-built F-35 planes, some of which belong to the RAF because the Navy doesn’t have enough of their own).
Come back the Fairey Swordfish, all is forgiven.
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And as we all know, an aircraft carrier alone does not a task force make. Smarter and less jingoistic expenditure, to my untutored eye, would have made better sense.
I think in the event of war DFDS and P&O will find themselves press-ganged, along with some lighter craft from the Serpentine and Oxford & Cambridge Rowing Clubs.
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