UK government decision to send illegal migrants to Rwanda is not without logic. Just tragic that it is deemed an effective deterrent….

Given that it is presently not possible to make the world an equal society, such that people can travel abroad if they wish to, and not out of desperation, I see no reason in taking any side. Those with intolerant anti-migration views are where they are, due to misinformation and manipulation by those who want them to remain that way. And those who support free movement of people do not seem to understand nor care that you do need to have the infrastructure to ensure such movement doesnt end up being detrimental or perceived to be burdensome or damaging either. And in any case, this supposed free movement only seem to apply to a selective few e.g. EU free movement doesnt include less privileged non-EU folk.

So, let’s have an unbiased point of view shall we?

1. People with anti-migration views in the UK vastly outnumber those interested in asking the Prime Minister about partying during Covid lockdown (i.e. Partygate). So, timing of the Rwanda move is being questioned. But what do people really expect? that politicians are just our slaves and they give their life to attain positions within government but we can just toss them when we want to? (what are they supposed to move on to?)We all get a lot wrong in our workplace (you only have to look at the state of services we receive these days: how many of us resign? I am not trying to defend Boris, but society does need to get a grip. He was useful when people wanted Brexit, now he is expendable? Well, he knows the buttons to press and is clearly doing exactly that..(he is unlikely to want to allow himself to be used and then discarded).
2. We are in 2022! but people still know they can get a reaction by putting flyers through doors in the UK warning that whites will soon be a minority in the UK – and presumably, that is supposed to be a worry? Even though, outside of London, you can likely count the number on non-whites. But more importantly, how do we think the natives in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and several other countries feel? Those natives (Maoris, Aborigines, First Nations etc.) are now a tiny minority in their own country and also now make-up majority of prison inmates in some of those countries, for falling foul of laws and ways of life imposed on them by the people they welcomed in as visitors years back. Same people who quickly outnumbered them and stuck them in reservations… YES, integration is the major issue. People coming into the UK should be willing to be brits and live as we do. Nobody will be desperate to come to Britain if we allow people to come in here and turn the UK into the countries they fled from. The focus should be on that dilemma, not daft statistics and idiotic scaremongering…
3. But what is truly sad, is the fact that in 2022, telling people they will be sent to Africa, appears to be an effective deterrent! Jeez!!!! That is so sad. Unfortunately, it is truly an effective deterrent as I am not sure any of those folk risking their lives to cross the English Channel in a rubber boat will do so, just to end up in Rwanda (well, until the no-win, no-fee lawyers step in and nobody gets sent to Rwanda anyway). But what is the long term situation here? if Rwandans can’t see it, should the rest of us not spell it out? Look at Liberia, Sierra Leone… decades on, the newly settled folk live separate lives and the various civil wars have been along that line of division. You will either end-up creating a new British money-backed elite in Rwanda, who will become hated by the locals; and in a country with a very recent history of genocide…. it was only a few years ago that we used to dump our plastic waste in China for them to sort it and we paid them for that service and it was all they had. Today, we are buying virtually everything from China; they sat up, worked hard and they are now indispensable to the rest of the world. Rwanda needs to find their way out of poverty – becoming the dumping ground for illegal migrants that Britain doesn’t want here, is not the way to go. People can blame Priti Patel all they want, she hasn’t done anything illegal, albeit, morally shaky; if we have £120m to give away, why not hand it to Rwanda in the form of agricultural equipment so that they can mechanise their farms and build industries around that. Instead of turning them into our dumping ground for our unwanted illegal migrants..
4. How can the world continue to look on? This is another imminent disaster down the road for Rwanda..

But this matter is less about the UK but more about Rwanda. How can this ever be a sensible arrangement to sign-up to?

Honestly, I didn’t think the UK would ever try to make such a move, as we used to be a nation of ’think tanks’ and one would like to think there are other solutions out there. But I doubt any solution would be without detractors. We don’t have an opposition party! instead of them coming up with their own better alternative to this Rwanda thing (an alternative that will stop the deadly Channel crossings), they are forever fixated on partygate!

If we develop all corners of the world (will never happen! I know…), then we can eliminate most if these problems. Unfortunately, what many people in the UK are saying, is that they feel exposed, helpless, as they pay their taxes (or claim their ancestors did) while our border has become non-existent! 6000 people have crossed in via the Channel this year alone. How do you prepare fir and get facilities ready, to welcome and integrate people, if you have no idea of numbers as they just come in without any processing? If the border is enforced (and clever people have to figure that out; unlikely this Rwanda thing will be that solution as legal processes are likely to scupper it) and the influx is via due process, chances of integration etc., will be higher and they will face less intolerance. If you look at the present UK government cabinet, many of them are in this country because their parents were taken in. There is no shortage of empathy in this country (and yes, there has been and will always be an element of hate too), it’s the lack of control (with the porous border) that is grating with many..