Barrister & Author Takes Down Tories on BBC Question Time

[@royalscribecomments1303]

Rishi and suella need to be sent to Rwanda permanently!

[@jake751]

I'd prefer prison.

[@williamharkenss8960]

And you, by the sound of it.

[@CEO786]

@@williamharkenss8960you should be in prison given what you’ve done and then placed on the register 😮

[@ZK_UK]

@@CEO786😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@gordonaliasme1104]

​@@williamharkenss8960if you hate Novara Media so much, don't watch it. 😅

[@kiaq1153]

Somali born , kenyan raised and an elite british barrister. Congrats to fellow Somali Mohammed :)

[@wonderlocs7758]

And not a single African accent to be heard, brilliant assimilation, just how people of NO colour perfer their token blacks. He done well!

[@abs3992]

Alhamduilla I hope next generation in the uk of Somalis prosper inshallah

[@Moonlight-777]

Is he muslim?

[@ladydiana885]

​@@Moonlight-777 Do you have problems with Muslims.

[@amranhassan4222]

@@Moonlight-777yes he is

[@Gph0367]

The Barrister on QT was absolutely brilliant👍

[@abidemicaxton2114]

That word loonies was the cake for the weekend . Dealing with loonies 😅😅😅😅

[@helpmehelp3009]

Qt is a great show. What spoils it is bloody F Bruce can not keep he gob shut, and spouts her bloody opion at every opportunity, she's Deffo a conservative because it's normally Laybour politicians she interrupts with her inane comments.

[@brockit79]

@@helpmehelp3009 blatantly Tory, in fact I think she's a Tory MP for Congleton. She really shouldn't chair QT.

[@TheNadiabear]

@@brockit79 The MP for Congleton has the same name but is an entirely different person. Ms Bruce does indeed show a bias that has put me off watching QT any more, shame I used to be a weekly fan of the programme since the early 1980's.

[@brockit79]

@@TheNadiabear Ohhh haha! Oops. I did google it but didn't get the right answer. Thank you for the heads up. Bruce demonstrates considerable bias.

[@Vernicho]

The majority of the carefully selected QT audience looked very pissed off by an articulate argument that pulled the rug from under their overt racism.

[@zam1007]

The looks on some of the faces 😂 As if they have some semblance of a counter argument 😂😂

[@GamerJudgemental]

I'd say it was more concerned but I see what you mean. I'd hope it was concern more than disagreement. Everyone is very pissed but mostly at the government

[@alfonsohorcajada4399]

Most of them could not comprehend such a well articulated argument. It is easier for them to just say yes to all the BS Tories spat out. 😊

[@sayno2lolzisback]

The classic Gammon reaction to logic

[@mitchyoung93]

@@sayno2lolzisback And theres the anti white English attitude

[@40plusmuscleandfitness]

Spent 100 grand to send these poor folks abroad or spend the money on training them into nurses and doctors to save our ailing NHS perhaps

[@vinylrulesok8470]

Don't be logical, that argument makes too much sense

[@kevbrown2532]

The bigger issue is the undermining of the judicial system by the Tories. Changing the way judicial reviews are used, ordering judges to ignore primary laws to suit the government, just a part of what is going on with the way controlling tge ability of courts, of the people to access the legal system, all very dangerous to the country.

[@whatwentwrong4599]

It's been happening for years thanks to Murdoch and Rothermere. Here comes the lefty lawyers and lefty judges headlines 🤮

[@johnwright9372]

People can't access justice without a lot of money. This of course, was the Tory plan all along.

[@saoirsehaslonglegs2313]

well said..the torys are blatant fascists,the judiciary are together the mainstream media.under the tory /far right state capture: this country is so deliberately dumbed down,broken,corrupted & divided..Cobyn was the best chance we had; I despair 😭

[@blazzz13]

Well look at all the despots and how they compromised the judiciary- from Mugabe, Franco, Maduro and even Trump.

[@jake751]

Unfortunately starmer is no better. Infact starmer is worse.

[@Arateenteras]

What a wonderful articulate barrister .It’s a relief to count with people like him over the derange rhetoric we get from tories and others..

[@ColonialHistory]

Let them keep the money and take the TORIES

[@wonderlocs7758]

No, they'll keep the money though! just like Britain kept irans money for over 40 years, until they had enough and took matters into their own hands, now paid in full

[@Theslavedrivers]

I love the exaggerated 'nod' from Thornberry, at 01:22, as if she was *just about* to make the same point ;-)

[@riverliva792]

It's just habitual and carried over from the commons when agreeing . Nod nod nod

[@acrodave9287]

This clip will probably show up in a heavily edited form on GBN, used as an example of the kind of 'Lefty Lawyers' plaguing the Tories desire to do what they want regardless of the interference of petty little concerns like Law! "And he's foreign so he WOULD say that, wouldn't he..?" I still say that apart from all the legal and practical reasons that the Rwanda deal won't work, the major reason it won't work is because it was never INTENDED to work in the first place! We're being forced to spend millions of OUR money on a scheme designed to make us angry against refugees and distract us from the very real problems: Tory destroyed legal immigration and refugee routes, mass poverty and destitution, the systematic rape of our infrastructure and the flagrant dismissal of Law; a distraction to save the Tories own thieving, criminal arses.

[@user-bm6jn9ls4n]

Majority of us refugees when we get status we work hard and push our children to get education .. I am a refugee from Zimbabwe and both my daughters are nurses..

[@marcinbenedek789]

@@homie3461 oh, then you plan on sending your daughters there? Whatever you please Sir.

[@marcinbenedek789]

@@homie3461 Sir, you are free to have your values and live by them, if you feel in your heart a deep need to support Zimbabwe with your daughters as nurses, do so.

[@geraldinecahill1965]

As a REFUGEE from Zimbabwe this contributor has already proven that Zimbabwe is an unsafe country for them to be in. Why then would they send their daughters to live there?

[@antoncannon7279]

You’re welcome.. it’s the education this country has offered that has allowed your daughters to now be nurses

[@zam1007]

@@homie3461 why would anyone do that? They fled the country because it is unsafe. Zimbabwe is a mess. Now we have 2 more nurses than before and still crying out for 1000s more. Can you please get on that bus of yours and help out at the hospital you were born?

[@isme959]

i think it's worth remembering that the gov has commited to over £350 million to rowanda for an estimated 200 refugies sent each year. i think that is a bit more than the cost of hotels.

[@jake751]

I don't think it is each year. It is just 200. They will then send 200 of their most vulnerable to England.

[@gethinhammond2038]

I've said it before. You can't say that sending someone to another country as a deterrant and then say it's a safe place. The policy cannot work, it's either not a deterrant or it's a breach of numerous refugee conventions. It's the ages old wuestion about the tories. Collousness or stupidity, it's got to be one or the other. Or both I guess.

[@SL-sd3sg]

An amazing man!

[@noirsociety]

“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.” -- Warsan Shire

[@poguemahone5476]

I agree with that statement fully. The problem with applying it here is that the demographic of people in small boat crossings is 76% male over 18.

[@SomaliPeninsula]

That name sounds brave like a Xaliimo ❤

[@alfsmith4936]

​@@poguemahone5476I think I'd rather take the risk myself too, then pay for my family to 'come on holiday', when I've got a job picking cabbage or something.

[@TOP.FOX.]

Yes it's very dangerous ground in france ??

[@poguemahone5476]

@AaronBrown-rr6yu migration Observatory university of Oxford. Figures are for 2022. Sample of 45755 people.

[@mariacrouch7109]

WELL SAID TO THIS LAWYER 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@manoutoftime9057]

You already said that.

[@mariacrouch7109]

@@manoutoftime9057 oops 😬

[@Oldwilsful]

Says a black man

[@mariacrouch7109]

@@Oldwilsful AND YOUR PIONT BEING ??? WHATS THE COLOUR OF A PERSONS SKIN GOT TO DO WITH IT ????

[@byst8729]

He would have been a genuine refugee due to the Somali civil war at the time. Both Kenya and parts of Somalia were former British colonies.

[@demeterontheinternet]

@@homie3461Life is tough and sometimes you have to make “Sophie’s choice”

[@Leornianæfre]

They are breaking International Law. The UN 1951 Convention provides the internationally recognized definition of a refugee and outlines the legal protection, rights and assistance a refugee is entitled to receive. The core principle of the 1951 Convention is non-refoulement, which asserts that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom. The document outlines the basic minimum standards for the treatment of refugees, including the right to housing, work and education while displaced so they can lead a dignified and independent life. Under international law, anyone has the right to apply for asylum in any country that has signed the 1951 Convention and to remain there until the authorities have assessed their claim.

[@Contextualiser16-tn8nd]

You know that white liberal lawyers would never take this to the ICC because they'll never do anything against their own

[@samkhan2303]

Y r we still ok with this, imagine that money going towards NHS, or foodbanks. We r a 1st world country & our children r going hungry, but all we do is talk talk talk… shameful

[@Contextualiser16-tn8nd]

Brexiteers and white remainers have no right to complain

[@finlayfraser9952]

The French offered sites for processing centres to avoid refugees getting their feet wet, but the optics of the boats suited the Tories better.

[@thecelt4807]

great work mate keep up the fight greets australia

[@annmccrindle]

More money down the drain Tax payers money 😮

[@lolwalters2936]

More than £250 million spent....no one sent to Rwanda... so how much would that have bought in terms of recruitment in the home office to process claims and beefing up the border force?

[@mariacrouch7109]

Well done to this Barrister god bless him 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@RaeCrazyGaming]

Brilliant analysis as always from Novara. Such convincing arguments against this senseless policies but ones i hadnt heard by the MSM yet. Its just been a bunch of buzzwords from different parties and politicians

[@Naomi-de2ps]

Isrl again at the forefront of cruelty, and another indicator of their racism, sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, as if the Zs didn't arrive in Palestine as refugees. So that's where the tories got the idea from and why Cruella Depravedwoman was so enthusiastic about it, her husband being a Z. It all makes sense now.

[@adivarso8175]

Parliament look to be taking a lot of pointers from the Israel playbook. 🤔

[@jake751]

They are taking a lot of donations from Israeli lobbyists too.

[@jakeblair4215]

700k immigrants, 20k of which were small boats. A political created problem badly handled. Well said

[@ZK_UK]

UK is wasting our Tax money and cannot solve the most basic problem

[@diningroomtableYT]

Very insightful.

[@FazlollahOnsori]

Prime minister is a refugee himself why he doesn’t go to ruwanda himself and see how it is to live there

[@doreenhollywood7459]

This was so interesting.

[@FazlollahOnsori]

Why prime minister is not listening to people

[@SomaliPeninsula]

Because people didn't elected him in the first place, they serve their super rich masters

[@cymru_am_byth]

Rwanda simultaneously being the Singapore of Africa and Britain's new Penal colony/Gulag/Hellhole for the unwanted and undesirable is quite a juxtaposition. Sunak probably had the opportunity to pull out when he came in on moral grounds but blundered it because he doesn't have many morals. Starmer hasn't many morals either, him abandoning the policy isn't 100%. Kagame shouldn't underestimate how incompetent the British establishment are if he wants rid, this could go on for years.

[@jafarparkes]

Imagine. An African country ripping off UK for 300 million😮 Next France😂

[@lekis5975]

@jafar4marva Weird arrangement, but I'm loving it so far, what with the £250 MILLION already on the table...I think that's about 4.5 BILLION in Rwandese Francs. I hope Kagame has spent it well, Real Estate, Technology, Education.

[@Radagast-]

The Rule of Law doesn't need to be observed, so much as acknowledged to exist.

[@organicod2438]

They're more like guidelines anyway

[@Radagast-]

@@organicod2438 The Rule of Law? No, *in theory* it establishes that everyone is equally subject to the Law. It's one of the things that underpibs a democracy. You know you're heading towards a dictatorship when your ruling class operates as though the Law is just another tool for it to use for its own ends...

[@aries6776]

Oh what a surprise. We are copying Israel's playbook for Rwanda!

[@9596-h4n]

I came to uk as a Kurdish refugee 1993 I was on income support for 9 months since I have been tax as a junior doctor the as a an orthopedic surgeon. Not all the same

[@demeterontheinternet]

You are our family even without an MD. You have cone here and you deserve our respect as our family and our neighbour. 🪬 I am so glad you have been so successful in your specialism.

[@chuxxj]

The irony is that Rwanda is actually a decent country and more advanced, developed and the very opposite of a shit hole. I’ve had the privilege of traveling and staying in over 100 countries across 5 continents. The only country that’s cleaner than Rwanda is Singapore. It also has a very low crime rate. That’s not to say I support the hideous deportation arrangement. The UK has made itself an unfortunate laughingstock.

[@minekara6407]

Decent country? Collecting cash from Israel and UK to deport asylum seekers

[@jeffdingle9677]

Whatever happened to the Sangatte processing centre in France ?

[@thisismetoday]

7:40 First the UK is frustrating EU countries for years on end with their antics around Brexit, now they’re frustrating Rwanda. Seems like all their foreign policy work is just about the UK having one farcical idea after another that they are trying to push onto others.

[@Quebecoisegal]

Never forget Dacre's headline in the crap known as the daily mail concerning 3 high court judges "Enemies of the people".

[@MandawalaHimi]

Mr Kagame destroyed himself by taking founds given by Mr Sunak!

[@__globalcitizen__]

How Kagame allowed himself to be used this way and completely tarnish Rwanda's reputation. His strongman image and the immense work that went in to rehabilitate Rwanda has just melted away... He experienced the Tories reverse-midas touch

[@andrewlane8949]

I think this lot must be still having parties sorry meetings because someone was pissed coming up with this idea

[@michaelshanahan4042]

It’s nice to hear someone say it, the tide has turned and getting stronger every day

[@ThatTallGuy0]

Get them out of here, They have broken the law and should be treated as such

[@VictorKibalchich]

don't be a div

[@ThatTallGuy0]

@@VictorKibalchich tell that to the victims in Rochdale and the rest of the north

[@VictorKibalchich]

@@ThatTallGuy0 get a grip ffs

[@ThatTallGuy0]

@@VictorKibalchich get a grip over what exactly? “Yeah immigrants are running grmng gangs 🙄 get over it”

[@ThatTallGuy0]

@@VictorKibalchich you’re no better then the predators

[@sararichardson737]

Whenever Michael says “Ashoom”. I’m reminded of his other famous namesake: Michael Caine.

[@dexstewart2450]

Laughing at the guy next to him, shaking his 'descended from immigrants' head

[@Ahzpayne]

At this point I think we just need to accept there is a limited handful of nations for which international law and standard ethical concerns do not apply because their national economic interests preclude every other concern every other person might have. No one is willing to take the beating or risk death to change that so it's not going to change.

[@davidwheatley593]

Most of them from Albania, so no right to be here!

[@jonathananderson3897]

What a shining example of how multiculturalism does indeed work 👍

[@mikewilson730]

Rishi and Suella too 🙂

[@jonathananderson3897]

@@mikewilson730 I don't consider either as human and so they can be omitted from the equation 😂

[@ralphmillais5237]

No, a classic example of why it has failed.

[@scooby1992]

Tory MP Bim Afalomi looked well cheesed off ! perhaps France might have worked more in partnership with us if two of the last Tory PMs Johnson and Truss hadnt of insulted them for short term political gains .

[@gazfisher7391]

'The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.' Tom Waits.

[@PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS]

Superb discourse by all

[@Trendycosmetics-os6gh]

Leave Tory alone. Good at critising Tory. Shame on you

[@Washpenrebel]

This guy came to the UK as an economic migrant no as a refugee. The issue people have is with economic migration not with genuine refugees

[@kev643]

The French offer is not even discussed. We are not stupid. WHY WHY WHY???????????????????????????????????

[@jonpritz8358]

Yet again - superb journalism.. Thank you folks..

[@ThatTallGuy0]

13:00 so we should be the dumping ground instead

[@Nickname-sk1oh]

His family moved to Kenya because of the Somali civil war...it's where people in southern Somalia were placed while they waited for asylum in other countries.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Train our own people

[@TheWolfe83]

The Tories look so ridiculous

[@ilhammohamed1114]

Of course he is Somali look the nose😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he is my bro

[@hunniieable]

Ah so Suella got her Rwanda idea from Israel - that makes sense!!

[@glasgownative81]

The way the tories have run the uk into the ground, am starting to think Rwanda would be a better option than here for me. At least the weather is warm there. In Glasgow these days you need to watch you don't disappear down one of the thousands of massive potholes. GP appointments are a thing of the past and the education system has been on a sharp downward slope since the SNP have been in power

[@Britain4775]

Rishi's Rwanda plan cost taxpayers £ 240 million (estimates there were 14,648 stowaways in 2023). We send pots of cash to Rwanda, Send a couple of token people there. Net migration into the UK was a record 745,000 (maybe 1000,000) in 2022. Net migration in the year to June 2023 was at 672,000, The top nationalities for immigration flows into the UK were: Indian (253,000), Nigerian (141,000). Uk is an island country with small land area, How many houses are there in UK？ British will become ethnic minorities soon. In 2023: report estimates estimates therre were 14,648 stowaways. Other, 102,807 people granted Ukraine Visa and Extension Schemes visas. 43,368 people granted Hong Kong BN(O) visas. 4,671 people granted Family Reunion visas. Britain’s legal migration numbers matter more than small boats, Rishi's distraction tactics!

[@mimimusick9734]

Less than 10% of Britain is developed. We can build new towns or expand existing ones, and put in new & improve old infrastructure to support a lot more people. But the will isn't there. We have more empty properties than homeless people, but the will to refurbish them isn't there--.especially since the tories have deliberately underfunded councils. We could welcome more people if we wanted to, especially as immigrants put more into our economy than they draw out via benefits etc, but a mixture of racism, xenophobia, insularity and NIMBYism prevents us moving forward. Also, 'British' is a nationality, not an ethnicity, and this idea that we 'natives' are going to be replaced by Johnny Foreigner is not borne out-- especially since the majority of those immigrants become British citizens themselves.

[@willhovell9019]

Impressive, but please don't denigrate NW London schools, these schools provided a springboard for this man. Schools outstrip other schools across the country. This comment reeks of classism and snobbery. You don't have to underplay a person's background to value what they have accomplished. Great that this person, born overseas gives such a splendid critique of the anti rule of law incompetent Conservative government.

[@roddychristodoulou9111]

The Rwanda plan will never be implemented , by the time it goes through the HOL and all the other hurdles we would've had the GE and labour would be in power .

[@finianlacy8827]

Government making money on every cut !

[@susanwright1999]

Sending them to rowanda loooooool.There still shipping them in

[@isokabooks3758]

He came to Britain to join his family. What is wrong with that?

[@oliver20686]

It’s a bit like sending the recycling waste to a poor country.

[@motouchant8276]

It's like paying a crook i money in advance to provide a service that was never dilvered. Rwanda will never give the money back. Shame on the Tories and it's leaders

[@RobertSmith-di5ll]

Post office revisited?

[@thehealinggame]

"Tory Loonies" ? That's putting it mildly !

[@cdean2789]

Rwanda is getting money for free.

[@WarrenPeaceOG]

The headline says it all, "Refugee Barrister yadda yadda yadda..."

[@rai2423]

So because he was a CHILD refugee, he cannot make an informed opinion based on his credentials and experience?

[@andrewrose7800]

Can some kind commentator or poor barrister let us know how the continuous influx of immigrants will be paid for. That should be a "discussion in the public domain" Michael. Muhammad has the right to voice his unpredjudiced point of view in this country.

[@garygee1468]

Another refugee lawyer making a fortune

[@walan31]

Its a scam, the Rwanda scam. FYI: 1993 Somalia was when the Somali army turned against each other after losing the North territory. His mum sent her kids away because the war was spreading.

[@matthewarmes619]

It’s not rocket science but tories make it seem impossible

[@nickw6025]

Part of the deal is to send migrants here. That might be a reason to stick with it. U K looks good on a cv. Especially if you wish to gain experience and then work in Europe or other countries.

[@Khan979]

We are dumb, a shit whole says Aaron I could not have put it in no other way. Really made me laugh. Could not have put in more simpler terms for what Rowanda is portrayed to be and has more to offer then at the world stage.

[@tomhermens7698]

We need between 250 000 to 500 000 immigrants per year.

[@JayMatharu]

Dumbest policy I’ve ever heard of, How can this even be considered?

[@James333-n2q]

Small snippets of truth leak out, but the fact that Israel had tried this approach first should have been on every front page while this topic was being discussed. What are all those journalists doing. Are they just taking their cue from some centralised agency that tells them what to write?

[@PEPG2024]

I windee if anyone could volunteer to go!

[@patterdalezipsuzilil]

People are bothered about 1000nds of them invading the shores taking up houses nhs and dwp no one bothered about boats just stop them

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Like deployed 👍

[@mariacrouch7109]

Sorry BARRASTER

[@mozone180]

You can’t be nasty and expect your money back 🇬🇧👺🇬🇧

[@patrickstowe7988]

It will also work for Rishi Sunak's father-in-law

[@ahmeddeeq328]

And collor too, we hate the collor

[@SD-ko4tz]

Heavenly subsidiaed by British taxpayers refugee lawyer

[@MichaelShearer-j8d]

What is world coming to.when a africian born in a africia .comes to Britain 🇬🇧 & tells us about or laws

[@Tonny-l9k]

My Somalia people on politics now 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 cmon my Akhis

[@davidarchibald50]

So let me get this straight. The Tories have come up with a completely bacon-headed stupid policy. Well, now that is a stunner. Maybe they should have a referendum on whether England wants to remain in the Union or if Scottish cows should wear tartan bonnets...you know, something useful.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

HIs father might have died because of political harassment. Being a Somali in Kenya, he was already a refugee, obviously.

[@Normanskie]

ASSET, clearly an asset, depends on which side of the fence, he may be an asset for the downtrodden working people but not for the other side of the fence. You're not entitled to be the Prime Minister just because you was born in America "BORIS". You are NOT entitled to be Prime Minister just because you was born in India, SUNAC.