Sending migrants to Rwanda will save UK money in the long term, says minister But a senior Tory critic said it would be cheaper to put each migrant up in The Ritz for a year than transfer them to central Africa.
Sending migrants to Rwanda will save UK money in the long term, says minister But a senior Tory critic said it would be cheaper to put each migrant up in The Ritz for a year than transfer them to central Africa.
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Yeah but it appeals to nationalist dickheads and the tories need to win favour somewhere…
When the next government comes to power, be it Tory or Labour, they’ll likely drop this as it’s such a clear mess but by then we would have already paid Rwanda plenty. £120m already, I suspect that’s what Rwanda is banking on too.
I still don’t understand why Rwanda,
We’re they the only country that said yes ?
Have any actual details of this Rwanda plan been released yet? There seems to be a lot of shouting going on but no actual meat.
They can’t organise a decent passport control for British citizens to enter their own country, good luck with organising a transport to Rwanda. Logistics will be the biggest barrier that will probably render it impossible.
Ooo the racists are out in force in the comments today!
“I’m not racist, I’m just being pragmatic. We need to send a message to all the filthy browns to get it through their thick skulls that if they try to come to this country (fleeing persecution and likely a life and death so horrific it is beyond the imagination of the average Brit) – if they come to this country we’re going to send them to some *other* shithole country where they can rot.
No it’s not insulting to the people of Rwanda that we want to literally make them Ozzy Colony 2.0 and dump all the filthy poor browns we don’t want there for them to deal with. And no, we don’t have any worries about their track record with human rights abuses, even though they aren’t stupid enough to sign anything that would give them total responsibility for their welfare, dragging us into a human rights crisis of our own.
I don’t care that the money we’re spending on it is less than a year at the Ritz – I’m going to take that as literally the plan, and criticize it as though it were (even though it’s a semantic point meant to highlight the fact that in terms of cost, we’d be better off buying them fucking houses and giving them jobs in the UK, or maybe just set fire to another £4billion pile like Sunak did with the fraud writeoff while people freeze and starve in their homes).
I think it’s a great plan! Because it isn’t luck that I was born here – it’s through sheer force of British patriotic will. My spirit reached out from the eternal void of nothingness and grasped a good British body to attach to, through my own personal responsibility and plucky Blitz spirit, and everyone not born in this country is lacking and therefore deserves their fate. They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps! I don’t know what everyone’s complaining about.”
You’re all telling on yourselves.
Edit: this is satire. It actually brings pain to my soul that I have to make this clear.
And the trolls, oh the trolls! Do you have buzzword searches and appear at the sign of the word “refugee”? You’re not even good at it anymore. It’s like talking to toddlers.
People shouldn’t even be giving this bullshit the time of day. There are so many barriers to it ever actually taking place in reality, arguing about the cost of it just makes it sound like an actual genuine proposal and not just another bullshit “feel good” policy to rile up the base and distract people from Tory corruption.
If you prove that you’re actually going to send them to Rwanda then you can bet that after a little while the majority of people will stop trying to enter the country illegally therefore driving down the cost which would be an ongoing and permanent issue otherwise. For everyone comparing this to the Nazis, just lol. There’s a reason people are trying to get into the country and not out of it
The cruelty is the point, there’s no other reason for this
On a humanitarian level it staggers me beyond belief this is being allowed to happen and proposed as the right move.
I think its depressing the lack of empathy in these comments.
Further still; conflating terms like migrants, refugees and economic immigrants like they are one interchangeable word.
Its a difficult problem. Paying Rwanda to deal with it isn’t the only option, and it’s certainly not the best one.
I think people generally have very little idea of asylum seeking and the legitimacy of it all having been educated by the tabloids for years.
We can also step back and try to consider why it has changed so much, the paths and methods, the implications of covid and other entries closing or having a serious reduction.
It’s obviously not true, and yet Tory cultists will believe it – lying to themselves – just because they salivate at the idea of people being sent to de facto concentration camps.
Why are we discussing the cost of fucking people over?
If this comes in and gets going and this country is stupid enough to re-elect them the next policy will be just shoot anyone that survives crossing the channel as a bullet is cheaper than a flight. Why spend 350 million on flights when a bullet is cheaper and the money saved can be spent on the NHS. Worked for brexit
I think Ukranians would have cultural issues with being sent to Rwanda.
I’m not really sure the cost is what we should be disgusted by.
I think idea behind this is that people smugglers will lose their income as channel crossings will become useless.
But The Ritz isn’t owned by Tory doners.
The logistics of this will be privatized and huge sums of money will be given to a company that has recently formed to deport migrants to Rwanda. They will offer to do it cheaper than experienced competitors. They will offer a hugely substandard service, the brunt of which will be bore by immigrants. The substandard service will ensure massive profits, which will go into the pockets of a few businessmen with links to the Tory party.
Mark my words.
It’s absolute bollocks. Australia’s concentration camps for refugees in Nauru is costing the country £2.5 million a year per refugee. I’m sure there all kinds of corruption going on in the Australian scheme. The UK one will be an even bigger waste of taxpayer funds.
Follow the money. There will be someone in Rwanda who has links with the tories.
It will be a spouse of a tory or a family member or some tories will own shares in a company involved.
It will be corrupt.
It’s not about saving money ffs. The comments here are a shocking reminder of how thick the average redditor and the UK public seem to be in general. How do you not ‘get’ this?
This Rwanda idea is a deterrent to undermine the human trafficking trade: You turn up on the shore instead of the legal channels and there’s a bloody good chance you will end up in Rwanda and not Richmond. It is that simple.
Who is going to take that risk?
It’s the most blatant attempt at redirecting the public’s rage from their electricty bills. I’m a ‘Brexiteer’ and it hasn’t worked on me, but will it work on the Daily Mail crowd?
Unfortunately, it probably will, any group of people who insult you for being from the Vatican city when they don’t like a post you made, instead of realising that’s probably not your actual location, will believe anything.
They’ve also swallowed a lot of tripe about the Ukraine war, but so have Redditors, they’ve been completely distracted from the fact that the EU’s and UK’s political class, accepted backhanders in exchange for using Russian gas instead of finding their citizens stable energy sources, for decades. Von de layen and Co hope that all their finger pointing and pearl clutching will stop people from realising this.
Let’s be honest. Its not like this is actually going to happen.
They just needed yet another distraction from the other nasty shit they’ve got their fingers into.
I still don’t understand what exactly were supposed to do with them. we dont exactly have loads of empty hotels ready for them.
Priti Patel would send refugees to a torture chamber if it was politically acceptable. She is one of the worst human beings alive today.
Thing is these migrants pass so many countries before they decide to settle in the UK this is not how the system was intended.
Send them all to Rwanda I ssy
Denmark agreed the same deal with Rwanda and passed a law to send migrants to 3rd countries. We just hijacked that deal as they are in the Commonwealth, they agreed. Rwanda have a massive labour shortage.
That is why it is Rwanda. Gibraltor and Ascension Island were also considered. The EU do this exact same thing with some Greek islands and Turkey. The specific bad reaction to this plan is just because Rwanda is in Africa and I imagine people are being subconsciously racist.
Its only for illegal economic migrants not asylum seekers.
After the the £37 billion Tory friends and family track and trace project. Every time I see something like this, first question come to my head:
**How much money are Tory’s friends and family making this time?**
Cheaper at the Ritz? Possibly, but Its costing nearly £5m a day now putting them up at 3&4 star hotels everywhere and then we have no means of removing them and there is no sign of them slowing down. At least the new plan is likely to stem the numbers coming, especially as many come from Africa to begin with. What answer does the Senior Tory critic have to stop them coming? I notice those that stand at the sidelines and snipe never seem to have a working answer themselves.
I notice nobody has been considering the carbon footprint angle of this, what with all the plane flights they’ll be doing.
Ignoring the ethical and moral implications, purely on a logistical and economical basis this is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
We need to come up with a term for refugees who think they can decide which place they can jump to. Maybe “refugee shopping” because they seem awfully picky for someone just looking for refuge.