Cooper said the £700m cost included £290m payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining people and then releasing them, and paying more than 1,000 civil servants to work on the policy.
I’d be interested in a full breakdown of where the money went, because I wouldn’t be surprised to find Tory chums creaming off millions.
If we could get a chunk of that back along with the PPE rip-offs then that’d help the bottom line.
Tory chums creaming off millions.
I know what you meant in this context… but come on.
Coming on is part of the process I gather
Oh god. Meta-phrasing.
Torinception
And what do you do once you’ve gathered it, dare I ask?
You get to be a Prime Minister and your boarding school chum gets a helpful dossier for later use.
U.S. American here. Does the UK have a particular glut of Rwandan refugees/immigrants? If so, why?
No, we don’t. We have a trickle of illegal immigrants and until this month a batshit plan to fly the ones that got caught to Rwanda if they tried to claim asylum.
Yeah, that’s… that’s a concentration camp with extra steps.
We British invented concentration camps while in Africa and no laws about not being terrible to people will stop us doing it again, as long as Tory donors get their cut.
I’m pretty sure the idea, while named differently, goes back a lot further into the past.
Wait, all illegal immigrants would be sent to Rwanda, or just the Rwandans? Seems like that plan would give them a great reason to “lose” their passport.
The plan rather blurred “illegal immigrant” and “legitimate asylum seeker”.
Yeah, we’ve had some of that over here too.
The government plan was struck down by the high courts here because Rwanda was not a suitable destination according to the ECHR.
The (previous) government’s response was (a) to pass a law declaring that it was a safe destination; (b) to look to limit the ability of the courts to rule on the legality of government policy.
They really were unconscionably unpleasant fuckers.
All. A truly barbaric proposal.
The humans they traded like political chips should all get to go to Braverman’s house and piss on her doormat.
That’s awful.
Here in this side, we have the governors of Texas and Florida spending millions in public money to fly and bus asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants to more liberal cities/states to cause a burden there. Primarily they do this as a political cudgel, petty punishment for Democrats recommending leniency in some circumstances.
The people being trafficked are sent thousands of miles away from the courts in which their cases are to be held, which all but guarantees that they will fail to show up and will face further punishment.
It’s inhumane.
They will waste money on anything besides solving the issue…
How much housing would 700m built? If it is affordable? 2k?
Building new houses is pointless: whoever wants to buy a house to live in will be outbid by the “professional landlords” as usual. The only solution is to outlaw renting and watch all the parasites crying while they sell houses for pennies.
Flood the zone with houses.
