Boris’ plan to send migrants to Rwanda is a stroke of genius & screeching lefties who claim it’s ‘inhuman’ know this
DAMNED if you do – damned if you don’t.
That seems to be the conclusion for Boris Johnson and his plans to tackle the dangerous and chaotic illegal immigration to Britain.
Both sides of the political spectrum agree something needs to be done.
But before Boris had even finished announcing a solution to send some asylum seekers for processing in Rwanda, the queue of those lining up to slate it was already much longer than that for dinghies departing Calais.
It was “cruel”, “racist”, “inhumane”, “morally indefensible”, “lower than low”, screeched the anti-Boris brigade.
But when it came to proposing an alternative, there was nothing but crickets and tumbleweed from these corners.
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Speaking in Kent — the landing county for most of the 4,500 who have made the treacherous journey across the Channel so far this year — the Prime Minister unveiled his so-called “migration and economic development partnership”.
The new £120million plan will see male migrants arriving in the UK in dinghies and lorries being relocated 4,000 miles away to East Africa as they await decisions on their asylum applications.
But the PM’s critics act as if Johnson’s government is bringing back some form of medieval punishment.
In fact, he is proposing to adopt a policy pioneered (albeit controversially) by Australia, and currently being strongly considered by Denmark.
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It is a policy that ultimately achieved its aims in Australia, so much so that the Left-wing opposition, when faced with the evidence of how effective offshore processing had been in preventing drownings, were left with no choice but to commend it.
Writing in the Herald Sun in 2015, then shadow immigration minister Richard Marles said Australian Labor would actually keep the conservative Coalition’s policy of offshore processing if they were elected.
Marles said it had dealt a “huge blow to people- smugglers” and had “actually stopped the boats”. He added that for the policy to work, it was vital that centres were humane and processed applications fast.
And that’s the key to all of this.
These centres CAN work in cutting the head off the snake and neutralising the driving source of the problem — money-hungry criminal people-smugglers.
That doesn’t mean it WILL work, but we cannot just write the whole thing off out of hand for nothing other than pure politicking and shameless self-righteousness.
Hardly renowned for brains
Let the Government explain how it intends to deliver these centres and how it will ensure processing is humane, dignified and cost-effective in the long term.
Because the cost of doing nothing will be enriching smugglers and enabling criminality.
Only then should those who actually care about solving the problem pass judgment. Besides, Labour’s plans for illegal immigration amount to a grand total of diddly-squat.
Former party leader Jeremy Corbyn called the plan “shameful and beyond cruel,” offering instead to crack down on people-smugglers and illegal migrants by . . . *checks notes* “building a world of peace and compassion”.
Boris Johnson and Priti Patel will never please the lefties with cushty jobs and nice gardens, who are too sanctimonious to see that uncontrolled illegal migration is a ticking timebomb for ordinary working-class communities.
I hate to bring up past traumas — we have suffered enough as a country in the past two years — but who can believe we came dangerously close to having that man as actual Prime Minister?
And others on the Labour benches, hardly renowned for their brains and big ideas, had little to offer but proclamations that offshore processing is “racist”.
Then there’s all the pompous sneering at Rwanda by those who seem to think it is a backward, tyrannical slum. It is not.
It is economically booming. Poverty there declined by 77 per cent between 2001 and 2017, and it is the first country in the world to have a majority female parliament.
Footballer Gary Neville, (apparently also a global migration policy expert) took to Twitter to provide his insight to his 5million followers.
Boris was “lower than low” for placing asylum seekers in Rwanda, he said.
The man probably couldn’t place the darn country on a map.
The reality is Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel will never please the lefties with cushty jobs and nice gardens, who are too sanctimonious to see that uncontrolled illegal migration is a ticking timebomb for ordinary working-class communities. They act as if France is some sort of warzone worth risking life and limb to flee.
The Prime Minister has not listened to their calls to soften our borders. And good, I say.
Boris Johnson must listen to the cries of people who feel affronted and disgruntled about British borders being exploited by greedy people-smugglers who cause untold suffering to their “clients”.
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Boris’s voters, all 13.9million of them, gave him a mandate to control the country’s borders, and this plan is a stroke of genius in keeping that promise.
His opponents should put a better plan on the table — or put a sock in it.
