We cannot have unlimited immigration. That is obvious. The worlds in a mess with wars, economics and climate change driving people out. We are a haven of relative prosperity and safety. But we are a small island. We haven’t got the room or facilities to support unlimited immigration. We have to limit it.
However, the vast majority of our immigration is legal.
in 2023 there were 1,180,000 legal immigrants (mainly from Africa and Asia). There were only 52,530 illegal immigrants (mainly from Syria and Afghanistan) and the majority of these would have been legal if properly processed.
We have replaced the transient Eastern European labour with less transient more expensive labour from around the world.
When we were sold the lies about Brexit we were told that :
a. We would control our borders (Obviously hasn’t happened!)
b. We would have a policy to allow essential workers in (Inept, useless, ineffective and costly)
c. We would reduce immigration (it’s gone up a lot!!)
d. British workers would flock to fill the gaps (They haven’t!!)
When we were in Europe we were working closely with our European partners to control immigration. We had mutually beneficial movement of workers that suited our needs. We could have controlled immigration more if we had chosen – there were the means but we did not use them.
Now, for some reason, our European neighbours no longer want to help us. I wonder why?
Instead of moving closer to Europe and working out a sensible scheme, the racist, xenophobic ERG refuse to cooperate and have opted for a hugely expensive policy of deterrence. It’s a bit like the ‘Flog ’em’ and ‘Hang ’em’ policies they learnt in public school. They are always in favour of pain and brutality. It’s a product of the public schools.
COST of Rwanda Policy
In total, the IPPR estimates that the Rwanda policy will cost the government between £1.1 and £3.9 billion to deport the 20,000 asylum seekers who have entered the UK via so-called “irregular routes” since last year. That is a staggering £195,000 per immigrant!
Are they seriously suggesting there aren’t cheaper solutions???
They want to terrorise young immigrants to frighten them into not coming!!
What a terrible policy!!
Now if we’d stayed in Europe we could have worked with the French!! We could target the gangs and set up processing centres to sort the immigrants. Many of them have legitimate claims. Many are traumatised by war or torture. The ones who have no legitimate reason could be deported back to their own country of origin.
Instead we spend a fortune shipping them to a country with very dubious human rights!
Is this any way to humanely treat people?
It smacks of concentration camps to me!!
Rishi is focussing on this tiny number while leaving the back door wide open!!
It’s nuts!!
