Interesting that the Tories are trying to say scrapping the scheme is offensive to Rwanda, but at the same time we need it as a deterrent. If you're intent on using deportation to their country as a scare tactic, it's not exactly flattering is it?
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I don't believe the previous government had planned to spend that, because that would mean having a plan.
I expect it just wasn't costed in a way that made the actual costs apparent. Labour will have made sure to get everything even tengentially related into that figure, whereas the Tories will be inclined to spread the cost over as many department budgets as possible.
None of this is excuse or justification. It's a brain dead policy, and it looks like the Tories were blind to how much it was costing. Whether they were willfully blind or not is only difference between incompetence and corruption.
[Sarcasm] Real great use of money!
[Sincere] How about it gets spent on you know actually helping people like funding hospitals, UBI, clean sustainable energy? Anything that's not actually detrimental to actual people.
Oddly enouch. Change the tags around.
And yiu have the next tory manifesto.
Could've spent all that money on housing, the NHS, education, transport, or a bunch of other things. Signaling "fuck the refugees" was more important than "improve the country".
Sadly refugees and immigrants are often the scapegoats in western hegemonic colonialist countries and as such they need to paradoxically keep them around but also 'send them back'.
I completely agree though, they really need to stop wasting money like this.
they really need to stop wasting money like this.
They have. The scheme is scrapped.
Sure, for now, but they do waste it in a myriad of ways. I'm sure this kind of thing will pop up again.