UK's Sunak says first migrant flight to Rwanda will leave in 10-12 weeks

[misskit]

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday the first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda would leave in 10-12 weeks, as he set out plans for for his flagship policy to tackle illegal migration.


Speaking at a press conference, Sunak said he would not outline the exact operational details of the plan, but said the government had made specific preparations.


"I can confirm that we've put an airfield on standby, booked commercial charter planes for specific slots, and we have 500 highly trained individuals ready to escort illegal migrants all the way to Rwanda with 300 more trained in the coming weeks," Sunak said.

"We are ready. Plans are in place. And these flights will go come what may."


Under the timeline Sunak set out, the first flight would leave in July.


Sunak also said he was "confident" that the plan complied with all of Britain's international obligations, responding to a question about its membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.


"If it ever comes to a choice between our national security — securing our borders — and membership of a foreign court, I'm, of course, always going to prioritise our national security," he said, referring to the European Court of Human Rights.

reuters.com

[cyrille]

It should work out at around 3 million pounds per prisoner.

[misskit]

Why Rwanda? Aren’t there illegal migrants from other countries?

[Edmond]

It should work out at around 3 million pounds per prisoner.

Not sure if that's a joke or serious.

[cyrille]

It's both.

[Edmond]

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[Seekingasylum]

Brexit meant the Uk's withdrawal from the Dublin Agreements and the EU common policy. Britain in the eyes of all economic migrants not eligible for a visa became immediately attractive given that inadmissible arrivals there could not be returned to the EU.

That is why they have come up with this stupid and expensive Rwanda scheme, which is still subject to legal challenge under the EHRA and ECHR.

Brexit had no benefit whatsoever. It was Britain's answer to Trumpism.

Fucking stupid English, really.

[cyrille]

Yvette Cooper MP summed up the situation well:

It is a totally farcical situation: a Prime Minister who does not think it is a deterrent, a Home Secretary who thinks it is “batshit”, a former Home Secretary who says it will not work, a former Immigration Minister who says it does not do the job and everyone who thinks that what we have is an incredibly expensive sham with the taxpayer being conned.

[britanicus123]

50 illegals out then they bring 50 back even Rwanda don't want, whats the point?

[Seekingasylum]

You have to understand the Brexit vote destroyed the Conservative Party and forced the estrangement of over 100 MPs whose qualifications for ministerial posts were intelligence, integrity, talent and skill. In the ensuing aftermath the new Brexitory Party was formed with 60 eccentric and unbalanced ERG MPs at its nucleus led by the BoJo the Clown and it was this rabble that formed subsequent governments in which qualification for Cabinet was not among my aforementioned listed virtues but was reliant solely in the belief that Brexit was not a fucking stupid disaster. Therefore, in order to qualify for the role of Minister of State one had to be a fucking idiot.

And that is why nothing in Britain today works properly or is even remotely sensible and has become the most indebted and taxed since wartime.

But soon we will return to proper government and the long process of rebuilding Britain can begin.

Frankly, I fear it is too late and will take too long to put right.

But, a return to the common EU migration framework is vital if this armada of migrants is to be stopped.

[cyrille]

Yet for all the predicted dire consequences of BREXIT that have come true, I don't recall anyone ever predicting 'A PM and cabinet too idiotic to run a village tombola - because they are all brexiters'.

Did you see that St George's Day 'march' where the arrests were almost all outside the pub at the starting point because they were all arseholed?

Rings a few bells regarding TD's BREXITer wing.

[helge]

UK's Sunak says first migrant flight to Rwanda will leave in 10-12 weeks

I want to see it before I believe it.

Similar talk and plans here

Criminal migrants to be jailed in the Baltics and Albania