Surely that money could've been spent fixing the asylum system and actually processing their claims.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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The elephant in the room that nobody wants to tackle is that the HomeOffice is utter shite. Top to bottom bunch of shit processes and wasteful people. But nobody wants to say this because telling people they're shit at they're job is not the done thing.
If the HomeOffice processed claims in a month, think what that would automatically do to the picture? Why is this out of their skill set? Having people sat in limbo for months and years is the problem.
It really drives me mad when right wing twats are like "asylum seekers get x amounts in benefits" and it's like, yes, it's fuck all per person and has to be paid because they're forbidden to earn, for yeeeeaaars!!
Process the claims as quickly as possible, if they have all their papers then that would be a matter of weeks, then allow them to work, that's how we cut the benefits system down and raise the taxes we're earning to help those that are more complex or need more help.
isn’t that also the result of the libertarian ideology of a minimal state?
No they're just incompetent.
Yeah but that means more brown people across the street and our little village in Shropshire hasn't seen one of those since Tony Blair.
Imagine if we'd used that money to build shelter for the homeless
Ah yes. I can picture the fleet of superbarges, now...
was that the £100m that was for the nhs that we got from brexit? asking for 52% of the population
They find money for everything except actually helping people
What a deal!
Weirdo creeps raid the coffers of the country just to do racism. Sunak you giant-eared dickhead, hurry up and fuck off.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The scheme to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, in order to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats, was first announced by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson in April 2022.
Sir Matthew stressed that the extra payments were not linked to the new treaty signed this week between UK and Rwanda as part of the government's attempt to amend the policy, which was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court last month.
Labour branded the revelation of the extra costs "incredible", with shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper adding: "How many more blank cheques will Rishi Sunak write before the Tories come clean about this scheme being a total farce?"
Mr Sunak insisted the new emergency legislation set out by the government would end the "merry-go-round of legal challenges" over the flights of some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
The bill compels judges to treat Rwanda as a safe country and gives ministers the powers to disregard sections of the Human Rights Act.
Earlier on Thursday, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman reiterated that it would fail to "stop the boats" and called on the government to fully exclude international law.
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For £240m I'd have put an asylum seeker up in our spare room. Then they'd have succeeded infinitely more than with the Rwanda plan so far.
Ruwanda is a hidden gem of Africa. How much they improved in the last 20 years is nothing to cough at. I think asylum seekers could get better live for them over there if they let the people to integrate with their society.