THE HIDDEN COSTS OF RWANDA

The Tory government is so desperate to have something to show their members, that they treat the treasury as an endless font of money for their pet project RWANDA.

The sums keep stacking up: they admitted to paying £140 million to the Rwanda government to kickstart the scheme, but a senior civil servant let slip that another £100 million had already been paid, in hot pursuit of the first payment and next year it will be followed by £50 million! So if my maths isn't wayward that is £290 MILLION! 

We still don’t know how many people Rwanda intend to take, an initial estimate of 200, up to maybe 500, means somewhere between £580,000 and £1.45M per person, what a waste of taxpayers money, and they tell us that we can’t afford to pay doctors a fair wage - we know where there their priorities lie.

Does anyone believe shipping 500 people to Rwanda out of the thousands trying to cross the Channel will be a deterrent - of course it isn’t, this policy will never "stop the boats".

When were the Tories going to let the public know this additional £100M? NEVER, seems to be the answer. In pursuit of their pipe dream they would quietly have buried the details and left the public to bear the financial burden. That sounds pretty familiar post Brexit.

Profligacy with the public purse used to be their war cry against all other parties. It is time for us to call out their hypocrisy before they damage our finances and world standing yet again. It is barely a year ago that their incompetency and rampant ideologues nearly crashed our economy. We can't let them wreck it again on the altar on their egos. 

And if that's not enough the chances of this policy being implemented are at best 50% says an article in The Times.