General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both [email protected] and [email protected] .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
Could've spent all that money on housing, the NHS, education, transport, or a bunch of other things. Signaling "fuck the refugees" was more important than "improve the country".
I don't believe the previous government had planned to spend that, because that would mean having a plan.
I expect it just wasn't costed in a way that made the actual costs apparent. Labour will have made sure to get everything even tengentially related into that figure, whereas the Tories will be inclined to spread the cost over as many department budgets as possible.
None of this is excuse or justification. It's a brain dead policy, and it looks like the Tories were blind to how much it was costing. Whether they were willfully blind or not is only difference between incompetence and corruption.
Interesting that the Tories are trying to say scrapping the scheme is offensive to Rwanda, but at the same time we need it as a deterrent. If you're intent on using deportation to their country as a scare tactic, it's not exactly flattering is it?