Priti Patel issued ‘ministerial direction’ to push through Rwanda asylum plan despite civil servants concern

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  1. They crunched the numbers and found it’d be cheaper to put them up in the Ritz than it to send them to central Africa.

    This has nothing to do with saving money.

    It’s basal pandering to the frothy, xenophobic, gamonny base.

  2. Honestly Pritler is worse than Johnson for making this country look like a backwards, nasty little racist place.

    I don’t understand how a British Indian with parents from Uganda can have such a pure and unbridled hatred of anyone who is even slightly “foreign”.

  3. I don’t understand the outrage here. Rwanda is one of the more stable and prosperous nations in Africa and something has got to be done about the people crossing the channel illegally by boat and I’m sick of people pretending like it’s not an issue. Many of them do have genuine asylum claims but many also just take the piss and disappear into the informal economy since it can take years to sort through asylum claims. If they are in Rwanda it might disincentivise people who are simply looking for a way into the country by abusing the asylum system but who don’t want to come in through official means

    People acting like this is equivalent to nazism or something have utterly lost the plot.

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