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...'

 

[tomus42]

//Yes, but it's a bit chilly up there.//

Once you're in the UK, ferries to the mainland and transport further south to leafy suburbia are available.

Unlike Rwanda. Hello (taps mic) is this thing on?

[New Judge]

"This whole Rwanda thing, looks to me like it is going to turn into Sunak’s 'Poll Tax', and bring him down."

One can only hope, Hymie, one can only hope.

The problem is there are two distinct camps: those who want it abandoned entirely and those who say it is not strong enough. Hopefully they won't cancel each other out and the entire scatterbrained idea will be put out of its misery. Hopefully Mr Sunak can then retire to spend more time with his money.

[tomus42]

It will obviously fail. Everyone knows it including all of the government.