Number Crunching

[Gromit]

A plane for (up to) 7 migrants had been chartered for £500,000.
That works out at £71,429 per migrant just for travel.
Last year 28,526 migrants came to our shores.

So it would cost over £2Billion just to transport last years intake, before £40billion hotel fees.

[THECORBYLOON]

Your cost is based upon there being only seven folk on each future plane which is unlikely.

[naomi24]

Are you just showing off 'cos you think you're good at sums?

(It wasn't for 'up to 7 migrants').

[Gromit]

Which idiot chartered a 300 seat aircraft for (up to) 7 passengers?
Would anyone other than an out of touch Government buy a plane ticket for over £70,000 each ?

[anneasquith]

Maybe 1st class tickets ?

[naomi24]

Where are you getting the 'up to 7 passengers' from, Gromit?

//The plane, which was initially supposed to carry 130 migrants//

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/06/15/uk-government-cancels-first-flight-of-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda-due-to-lack-of-passengers_5986836_4.html

[Gromit]

// Rwanda deportations: Seven asylum seekers understood to be on tonight's flight as Liz Truss insists flights will go ahead //

https://news.sky.com/story/rwanda-deportations-seven-asylum-seekers-understood-to-be-on-tonights-flight-as-liz-truss-insists-flights-will-go-ahead-12633502

The Plane is a 300 seat Boeing 767.

[Peter Pedant]

no yes
false logic - altho I dont llike pointing it out to people I like ( not many then !)
You are using 'marginal rates' - and applying it to the whole
( and you cant, its invalid).

It is like getting ten bob for 3 minutes work, and saying Oh yeah well per week that is - - - £470/-/-
which is true but doesnt mean much

[Peter Pedant]

go on crunching
but not numbers hur hur hur

it is a bit like NJ and stats

[Gromit]

I have maintained all along that the Rwanda policy is a gimmick, a publicity stunt to win votes.

Firstly there is not much money to send many. Based on the Australian costs, I estimate about 50.

Secondly, this flight was schedules a fortnight before two by elections. So rushed that the legalities had not been sorted out. And 7 passengers is a gesture not an attempt to tackle the real problem.

Sadly some people enjoy this entertainment, no matter what the cost to the taxpayer.

[naomi24]

Gromit, haha! That really is number crunching. Mind you don't break a tooth... or something!

[Gromit]

John spent nearly £250K on private yet last year.
Memorably one flight from London to Blackpool when there was a train available for £50.

[ToraToraTora]

have a day off gromit, you know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

[ToraToraTora]

hilarious that gromit starts a thread about arithmetic when he has no clue about arithmetic! PMSL!