Rwanda policy has made illegal migration problem WORSE
Priti Patel: she and her boss Boris Johnson are the only people who deserve to be carted off to live in an African dictatorship. They’re too stupid and pig-headed to be allowed to stay in the UK’s government.
Priti Patel’s plan to send people accused of being illegal migrants to Rwanda has not stopped boats crossing the channel but has sent some asylum-seekers into hiding – creating a cost, and time, burden for the authorities, while others have resorted to self-harm – creating work for the NHS.
Meanwhile, prime minister Boris Johnson has announced that the government is preparing to deport the first 50 migrants to Rwanda – and to spend who-knows-how-much-money defending the decision in the courts.
So, all things considered, these two idiot Tories have achieved nothing more than a waste of public money, and public organisations’ time.
What a pair of [insert expletive of your choice here].
Apparently, more than 7,000 people have crossed the channel in small boats in the first four months of the year – more than three times as many as last year and more than seven times as many as in 2020.
The latest available government figures show 792 migrants arrived in small boats in the week from 2 to 8 May.
The Tories are saying their deportation policy will take a considerable time to push through, as legal challenges will “take time”.
But Patel said she would not be deterred…
The government says the new scheme will be a major blow to people smugglers and will stop people dying on dangerous routes to the UK.
… certainly not by the facts, it seems.
Meanwhile, Johnson has been taking an opportunity to denigrate the lawyers who will stand up for the migrants’ rights.
In an interview with the Mail, he said:
“There’s going to be a lot of legal opposition from the types of firms that for a long time have been taking taxpayers’ money to mount these sort of cases, and to thwart the will of the people, the will of Parliament. We’re ready for that.
“We will dig in for the fight and we will make it work,” he added. “We’ve got a huge flowchart of things we have to do to deal with it, with the leftie lawyers.”
How strange. It isn’t the “leftie lawyers” who are wasting a fortune on a pointless policy of persecution.
It’s this profligate prime minister and his psychotic home secretary.
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When I saw the bit about “thwarting the will of the people” I thought, which people? Boris and his cronies? Most people disagree with this policy.