Arsenal have no plans to cancel their sleeve sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that the government’s Rwanda immigration plan is “unlawful”.
No changes are anticipated to the four-year £10million-per-year ($12.5m) deal signed in 2021 with Visit Rwanda, which first appeared on Arsenal shirts in 2018.
When delivering the verdict, Lord Robert Reed, president of the court, said Rwanda “has a poor human rights record”, citing evidence from the UN’s refugee agency. Lord Reed added there was a “real risk” asylum seekers could be sent...
The point is that the Supreme Court has ruled that it is not a safe country (for the tories to deport immigrants too) due to human rights concerns, and as a result of said ruling, the consideration of the ethics of advertising such a country for tourism has been brought into the limelight.
To be clear, I’m not saying I agree with this equivalency, I’m just trying to point it out since a lot of people (somewhat understandably) seem to be missing that entirely.
What? They’re unrelated
The point is that the Supreme Court has ruled that it is not a safe country (for the tories to deport immigrants too) due to human rights concerns, and as a result of said ruling, the consideration of the ethics of advertising such a country for tourism has been brought into the limelight.
To be clear, I’m not saying I agree with this equivalency, I’m just trying to point it out since a lot of people (somewhat understandably) seem to be missing that entirely.
Funny thing is, I don’t think anyone has looked at the Visit Rwanda sleeve sponsorship and gone “ you know what, I think I bloody well will”.