UK Conservatives planned to spend 10 billion pounds on Rwanda migrant scheme, minister says
UK Conservatives planned to spend 10 billion pounds on Rwanda migrant scheme, minister says
Britain's new Labour interior minister on Monday accused the previous, Conservative government of concealing the fact that it expected to spend 10 billion pounds ($13 billion) on a now-scrapped plan to deport thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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over $850k for each of the 15000 asylum seekers. For half that they could have bought each one a condo, paid for an entire university education, meals, utilities and all for the duration. Give them citizenship on completion and you'd have 15k guaranteed votes for life... 🤷♂️
But then all of the racists wouldn't vote for them.
What a phenomenal waste of money that would have been.
Whatever it takes to keep those desperate people desperate and not inconveniencing comfortable people in wealthier states.
I don't know how it's even legal in the UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (it's not my country, but I would say that it sure shouldn't be). Rwanda's doing a lot better than it was in my youth what with the whole genocide thing back then, and I have high hopes for them, but it's still a fuck you to send desperate migrants to Rwanda.