UK Conservatives planned to spend 10 billion pounds on Rwanda migrant scheme, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-rwanda-asylum-scheme-has-cost-700-million-pounds-says-minister-2024-07-22/
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UK Conservatives planned to spend 10 billion pounds on Rwanda migrant scheme, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-rwanda-asylum-scheme-has-cost-700-million-pounds-says-minister-2024-07-22/
Posted by Potatonator29
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Flipping heck, what an absolute farce. All the while claiming that they couldn’t afford to restore doctors salaries to pre austerity levels.
If a crime hasn’t been committed here that hole needs filling and the people involved still need to be named and shamed repeatedly so that they become synonymous with the Rwanda scam.
Actually 2 billion on Rwanda and 8 billion on “consultants” no doubt. Who are probably friends and family of a Tory.
So more money would have been wasted by Sunak, not forgetting how many Covid PPE contracts he wrote off during his stint as chancellor.
Probably cheaper than supporting the migrants until they’re on their deathbed. Refugees have 51% employment rate, they all need housing, many will be on council housing, they will all eventually need some healthcare and they will be disproportionately on state welfare. Higher upfront cost to send them to Rwanda though, but someone should estimate how much it costs to take care of the average refugee for the next 50-70 years of their residency in the UK. The government/the ONS really need to step in and report the estimated lifetime cost of refugees so we can have a proper debate about the financial cost.
The cost of the actual sending part of the Rwanda plan is about £700m. The £10B figure is mostly the cost of *not* processing the remaining ones that the Rwanda plan has no capacity for. If they’re not processed they can’t be sent back anywhere (even if they’re an economic migrant from a safe country), they can’t work and provide for themselves and contribute to society (even if they’re a much needed Nurse). All they can do is sit in their commandeered hotel and wait for the government to process them – that’s where the much larger figure comes from.
People may scaremonger and say Labour will “let them all in”, but a lot are already in. Whatever the Labour plan for them is, it has to be better than the conservative plan which was to just let them sit there in their hotels while spending a stupid amount of money to completely ignore the problem.
*Launder. They planned to launder ten billion pounds through the Rwanda migrant scheme.