Iceland customers call for boycott over Richard Walker’s Rwanda view

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Outraged Iceland customers have threatened to boycott the frozen food retailer following its boss reportedly supporting the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

On Thursday’s BBC Question Time, Walker said: “This this is horrific issue it needs to be dealt with a lot of humanity. I think perhaps my, my kind of liberal gut instinct was that we shouldn’t offshore our problems. But when you take a step back, the businessman in me knows that we’ve got to break the business model of the people, traffickers who are trading on human misery and suffering.”

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  • Paul 4 years ago

    1. Not sure how his comments can be translated to him supporting the scheme, he just said that he can see both sides of the story.
    2. I doubt anyone who supposedly has high moral concern for this policy shops at Iceland.

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Outraged Iceland customers have threatened to boycott the frozen food retailer following its boss reportedly supporting the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

On Thursday’s BBC Question Time, Walker said: “This this is horrific issue it needs to be dealt with a lot of humanity. I think perhaps my, my kind of liberal gut instinct was that we shouldn’t offshore our problems. But when you take a step back, the businessman in me knows that we’ve got to break the business model of the people, traffickers who are trading on human misery and suffering.”

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  • Paul 4 years ago

    1. Not sure how his comments can be translated to him supporting the scheme, he just said that he can see both sides of the story.
    2. I doubt anyone who supposedly has high moral concern for this policy shops at Iceland.

    Reply

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