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<blockquote data-quote="Reiser99" data-source="post: 1098507" data-attributes="member: 72977"><p>Forgot to post about this earlier.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62583569[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Slightly hilarious that the government is trying to keep this information secret mainly because it seems they said Rwanda is a **** place to send people and yet they went ahead with it anyway.</p><p></p><p>"Lawyers for the government had argued disclosing the comments would damage relations with the African country."</p><p></p><p>Yeah it's a **** hole, but at least it's not here.</p><p></p><p>On a serious note there are two major things that stand out. First is they basically tried to water down the analysis of the country to make it look like a safe place to send people and got called out for lying through their teeth. This is after Rwanda was initially excluded because of its human rights record. So the first choice countries all told Britain to **** off and they were left with going with countries with sketchy human rights records.</p><p></p><p>Second, transparency for me should be a fundamental part of democracy. The constant need to hide decisions is what causes a lack of trust and allows politicians to lie. This government's track record of gas-lighting and hiding information is atrocious and completely undermines any trust in the democratic process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reiser99, post: 1098507, member: 72977"] Forgot to post about this earlier. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62583569[/URL] Slightly hilarious that the government is trying to keep this information secret mainly because it seems they said Rwanda is a **** place to send people and yet they went ahead with it anyway. "Lawyers for the government had argued disclosing the comments would damage relations with the African country." Yeah it's a **** hole, but at least it's not here. On a serious note there are two major things that stand out. First is they basically tried to water down the analysis of the country to make it look like a safe place to send people and got called out for lying through their teeth. This is after Rwanda was initially excluded because of its human rights record. So the first choice countries all told Britain to **** off and they were left with going with countries with sketchy human rights records. Second, transparency for me should be a fundamental part of democracy. The constant need to hide decisions is what causes a lack of trust and allows politicians to lie. This government's track record of gas-lighting and hiding information is atrocious and completely undermines any trust in the democratic process. [/QUOTE]
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