Seems short sighted to announce this. The Rwanda money has already been spent so you’re undermining any potential deterrent effect which might exist by saying it will be reversed straight away.
Could have let the Tories take the blame for the “evil” policy while reaping any potential benefits. It seems like there has been a limited deterrence so far given the news out of Ireland that they are receiving additional asylum claims at the moment.
It’s only a deterrent to people already in the country, but Rwanda can only take about 150 people a year so it’s not much of a deterrent. People going to Ireland are the ones selected. Now the government has to waste time, and money, selecting new people, presumably doing this forever until some of them hang around for some reason and get deported. Eventually 150 will be deported and then it will be a complete non-issue for everyone else.
Somebody was pointing out that when they go to Rwanda they’re not prisoners they get citizenship papers. So technically, their citizens of Rwanda now, and Rwanda is not a save country, so they could come to the UK and claim asylum.
One effect of the harebrained Rwanda policy was to drastically reduce the price of getting on the boats, so this announcement may reduce crossings as fewer will be able to afford it
Seems short sighted to announce this. The Rwanda money has already been spent so you’re undermining any potential deterrent effect which might exist by saying it will be reversed straight away.
Could have let the Tories take the blame for the “evil” policy while reaping any potential benefits. It seems like there has been a limited deterrence so far given the news out of Ireland that they are receiving additional asylum claims at the moment.
This is the sunk costs fallacy. If a policy is bad, you scrap it, you don’t stick with it just because it’s there already.
It’s only a deterrent to people already in the country, but Rwanda can only take about 150 people a year so it’s not much of a deterrent. People going to Ireland are the ones selected. Now the government has to waste time, and money, selecting new people, presumably doing this forever until some of them hang around for some reason and get deported. Eventually 150 will be deported and then it will be a complete non-issue for everyone else.
There’s no long-term plan here.
Getting rid of it is the best strategy.
Don’t forget the vulnerable refugees that the UK will be taking from Rwanda, per Article 19 of the agreement.
Somebody was pointing out that when they go to Rwanda they’re not prisoners they get citizenship papers. So technically, their citizens of Rwanda now, and Rwanda is not a save country, so they could come to the UK and claim asylum.
One effect of the harebrained Rwanda policy was to drastically reduce the price of getting on the boats, so this announcement may reduce crossings as fewer will be able to afford it
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/06/channel-smugglers-drop-prices-and-cram-more-people-on-to-boats
No, it’s one of the very few things that make me agree with Labour.