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Labour Make Use Of The Rwanda Scheme.....
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So not a total waste then.
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The £700 million was clearly not wasted by the Conservative Government. They weren't the ones finding ways to delay and stop it. All they are responsible for is not having the guts to either tell the ECHR what it can do with it's ridiculous judgements, or better still withdrawing from accepting their "
13:10 Wed 24th Jul 2024
// yes they used something from the Rwanda scheme, thanks for the conformation! //
That something is the hire of a plane. The British government have a contractor for chartering aircraft. Presumably we have a contract with them and the change of resident in No.10 does not invalidate the contract. The new Government need a plane so they have chatered a flight. The new destination, Vietnam, is 2000 miles further away, so presumbly the cost is different and maybe the type of aircraft used.
Trying to portray that they plan to use a plan to deport people in an aircraft as being the same failed plan as the Conservatives is laughable, and a bit desperate.
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// Well done Labour for salvaging a tiny bit of value from the millions they wasted by scrapping the scheme //
The £700 million was wasted by the Conservative Government. 4 people went to Rwanda, and there is no evidence that when it was announced 2 years ago, that anyone was deterred by it.
// scrapping the scheme and encouraging more illegal immigrants to chance their life. //
Since Sunak took charge 50,000 have come across the channel illegally. A similar number under his predecessors. Labour have been in power for 20 days. Has there been a significant increase in the number of illegals making the journey in the fortnight since Starmer announce the Rwanda gimmick had ended?
and encouraging more illegal immigrants to chance their life.
The £700 million was clearly not wasted by the Conservative Government. They weren't the ones finding ways to delay and stop it. All they are responsible for is not having the guts to either tell the ECHR what it can do with it's ridiculous judgements, or better still withdrawing from accepting their "authority".
There was plenty of evidence that it did deter, ask the Irish government, and that was before anyone had even been allowed to go due to interference. Were it to have started the evidence would be there for you to ask for.
The money was wasted at the point the new government broke the deal and Rwanda said, "Thank you very much; that was money for nothing, please call again for anything similar".
No doubt you can provide figures of recent crossings, but clearly a few days isn't enough for evidence as to what is happening; but common sense tell us exactly what the consequence of not sending anyone elsewhere will be. It's hardly rocket science.
“The true cost of the Rwanda plan (to the UK tax payers) – £10 billion.”
I think you will find the Home Secretary put the cost at £700m:
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That includes, she says, the cost of 1,000 Civil Servants working on the scheme. She doesn’t say they were hired especially for the scheme, nor that they have since been dismissed. So we can assume if they were not employed on the Rwanda scheme, they would have been doing something else.
I think where her costs of £10bn came in was the cost of keeping people who were unable to claim asylum (courtesy of the Illegal Immigration Bill) and unable to be sent elsewhere (principally courtesy of the ECHR). She said that processing these people’s asylum claims, as Labour intend to do, would enable them either to be sent elsewhere or remove the cost of their keep from the taxpayer. What she didn’t quite explain is how those whose claims had failed would be removed and where to and how those whose claims were successful would suddenly become self-sufficient. Still, can’t expect too much, I suppose.
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