Last two migrants bound for Rwanda to be bailed, home secretary says

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1. It’s not been a good few years for the British right wing. Johnson gone, statues of their favourite slave traders torn down, embarrassed by Brexit, not likely to see power for a decade, now this. Comfort eating sales of Tennent’s Super & pork scratchings will be up this year.

2. We may as well just accept migration is set to just go up and up and up and up.

3. Well the cost per person was £74 Million. So he’s just saved the British tax payer £148 million in his first couple of days.

4. And thus starmergeddon began.

   This is a basic critical thinking error and we didn’t even get to the end of the first week.

   Effective policy is layered. Prevention. Remediation.

   Prevention is whatever these imbeciles think they’re going to agree with the EU. Remediation was Rwanda, which worked so well that after just a handful of repatriations, Ireland was kicking up a right old fuss about swimming in immigrants.

   The sleaze began before daybone with the sue gray debacle.l, and now we have the same old inability to think things through. Both hallmarks of the last labour administration. They have learned nothing.

5. Bailed? I can understand scrapping Rwanda, but letting them loose in the streets seems irresponsible.

6. Okay, so now what? 700k immigrants (legal or illegal) isn’t sustainable, so people want action on this issue

7. It will be interesting to see if the other EU countries are setting up similar schemes work.

   My concern here is that Starmers ‘target the gangs’ policy is like embarking on a war on drugs. You cut the head off of one cartel and another 3 appear….then another 6 and then before long there’s dozens.

   It also takes years to run these operations, gather evidence, and lock people up. It will take months if not years to properly get this ‘border command’ up and running effectively…

   But I’m like, what’s the point. The drug war showed us that while there’s demand, there is supply.

   The treaties we are a part of mean that if people arrive here from many many places they will be able to stay. The only thing sunak said in the debates that made sense was…who are we going to negotiate to deport an afghan or a Eritrean? Or a Libyan or a Iranian? Just makes no sense. You can’t send these people back home.

   I feel like Starmers policy is surrender tbh. But the tories policy was never going to work either before someone thinks this is a partisan point.

8. That’ll save some of the UK tax payer’s money but these 2 economic migrants will continue to be a drain of our taxes. Time to start sending them back home imo

9. Rwanda, you can sponsor one the biggest football teams in the world and have visit Rwanda plastered all over the stadium and team.
   You can have U.K. citizens go on holiday, but you are not good enough for the poorest 3rd world people 😂

10. lol I move to Rwanda tomorrow and next week I swim back here, I will agree to quarter of that 74m bargain for government!

11. people who talk about the 74M per immigrant are ignoring all the immigrants who were discouraged from coming, gov may have saved billions in long run

12. Given that the current and former Labour Party leaders are keen Arsenal fans, how do you think they feel about one of the club’s shirt sponsors being Rwanda?