Rwanda A Deterrent?

[Khandro]

Travel writer Mark Palmer writing in the Spectator says;

'The Supreme Court's ruling that sending migrants to a formerhostel in Kigali is illegal strikes another hammer blow to the government, not least because Rwanda gets to keep the £,140 million that set up the proposed deal in the first place. Never mind what happens now — and this story is far from over. 

                                                                                                     If I were a migrant about to take a small boat to Britain, the prospect of ending up here, where it's easier tostart a business than almost anywhere else in the world, would hardly be a deterrent. The facts are these: Rwanda was a broken country after the 1994 genocide. It had been one of the bloodiest of bloody killing fields, with up to one million people dead and a further two million displaced within 100 days —while the world watched in horror butdid nothing. And yet, approaching the 30th inglorious anniversary of that human tragedy, Rwanda is the country many neighbouring African nations look to as some sort of beacon.

It has one of the fastest-growing economiesin Africa; there is little crime; 92 per cent of the population has medical insurance (at around $8 a year) and the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index ranked it the fourth least corrupt country on the African continent behind the Seychelles, Botswana and Cabo Verde...'

 

[youngmafbog]

It could be.

But too many lefty liberal briefs trousering tax payers money under the guise of 'ooman rites'.

And the EHCR of course, that the spineless WEF stooge PM wont pull out of.

[gulliver1]

The figure £140 million is old hat now This fraudulent Crony Govt has now spent a further £100 million and according to ministers a further £50 million in the coming year is to be spent making a grand total of £290 million.....That's an awful lot of back handers for the Cons.

[dave50]

I'm still waiting to hear what keir starmer is planning to do about the illegal immigrants arriving on the boats. Nothing probably.

[naomi24]

It would be - if they'd do it.

 

Failing that how about setting up a very basic camp on a remote and uninhabited Scottish island to send the boat people to the minute they arrive?   That would be a deterrent too and we wouldn't have all this fuss about them being sent abroad.

[gulliver1]

Dave 09.58..Nothing probably...Following in the Tory's footsteps then.

[Hymie]

Imagine that you are planning to cross the channel in a small boat, and you knew that 1 in 1,000 might end up in Rwanda – would that thought make you decide to stay in France?

[naomi24]

You're plucking figures out of the air, Hymie.

[nicebloke1]

Well that idea of sending them to a Scottish island had me in stitches. I mean these people have made their way to France from god knows where, and then had the halls to cross the channel on a bottle top. I really don't think dumping them on a remote place up in Scotland will make it to difficult for them to find their way back to other areas of the UK. Even Boris wouldn't have come up with this idea. :0)

[naomi24]

//I really don't think dumping them on a remote place up in Scotland will make it to difficult for them to find their way back to other areas of the UK. //

 

Hmmm ... that's a thought.  Wonder where they'll buy the boats to come in?  Amazon perhaps - and have them delivered.

[jno]

fourth least corrupt country on the African continent

a fine bunch of comparators. Worldwide, it ranks 54th least corrupt, equal with Saudi (the UK is 18th least corrupt).

For Saudi incorruptibility, see here

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-men-funnelled-bribes-top-saudi-officials-london-court-told-2023-11-22/

So I'm sure the Rwandans will make good use of all that money we're sending them.

[nicebloke1]

You clearly have no idea of the resilience  these people have and their determination to get from A to B. They want what we have and willing to do anything to get it.

[naomi24]

Amazon it is then.  ;o)

[nicebloke1]

Naa, someone in the UK will spot a business opportunity.

Anyhow, where there's a will there's a way.

[naomi24]

You're not thinking this through, nicebloke.  We're talking about deterrents.  If the ultimate destination for those coming from France in boats was guaranteed to be a remote, cold, uninhabited Scottish Island pounded by the North Atlantic, the boats would stop coming.  It wouldn't take many boatloads for the message to get across.

[douglas9401]

What would the boggle eyed do without remote Scottish islands? 🙄

[naomi24]

Dunno.  What would they do?

[nicebloke1]

Whatever you say Naomi. I would give Sunak a ring later and tell him you've cracked it. And don't forget to remind him that you are never ever wrong about anything.

[Old_Geezer]

Obviously you need all who are caught to be in the queue to Rwanda.  And locked in a camp until their turn comes.

 

Of course it's probably easier to simply take them them straight back across the Channel and dumped on the beaches there. Let them save up a few more years before paying criminals for another failed attempt.

[retrocop]

We built internment camps for suspicious,dubious aliens on the Isle of Man etc

It would be cheaper to build a barb wired ,guarded camp on Gruinard and see how far they get tunneling out of that. Could be next years blockbuster Christmas film

[retrocop]

I am led to believe that the UK will still pay for each individual's board and lodging if they are repatriated to Rwanda for the next 5 years? Anyone heard this rumour or fact?