£15bn on hotels?

You are aware that we left the EU without any agreements in place? No access to the security database for instance.

So yes, any agreement is better than what Brexit gave us which was nothing.

There were no boat crossing recorded before 2018.

This whole shitshow has been caused by Farage. Thanks to him we left the EU and we are no longer able to just send them back. He did it deliberately to make it a bigger problem so he has something to whip people up about. I'm sick of hearing about the bloody boats. In the scheme of things we have much bigger problems. Farage knows what he is doing. He doesn't care about the boats, he just wants to get in power to make him and his cronies even richer than they already are (at our expense) Just like Trump. And all the fucking idiots are falling for it.

They’ve been swapped you mean. It’s one in one out.

How does that help if channel crossings keep going up? Which they are.

Asylum seekers have been returned, Rwanda plan sent back 2 volunteers.

No party is going to stop the boats, don't you agree that we need a working asylum process instead of demonising refugees?

@Whatafustercluck , The Conservatives were justifiably kicked out; Labour came in to office promising the earth and have failed to deliver their exit can’t come soon enough. No one absolutely no one is taken in by their policy of blaming everyone else for their endless list of failures.

Reform will make us an absolute laughing stock.

Farage et al are just the faces of the disaster capitalists who want to strip this country bare. You'll lose the NHS, workers protections, holiday and maternity pay. Environmental protections will disappear.

They are not in any way patriotic, and will rip out everything good about this country and give it to their backers.

You think it's bad now, wait until those charlatans get in

It’s the assumption that the migrants themselves will go along with this deal that makes me laugh! They’ve already been in France, there’s a reason they jumped on a small boat to come to the UK. Who in their right mind thinks that any of them will say ‘ok, fair enough, I’ll stay in Paris’ when they’re told that we have this agreement?

Better than nothing? You haven’t looked at the stats, have you? They’re out there. They aren’t secret.

I note that stupid line has quietly been forgotten. Time to admit Labour has lost control of the economy, lost control of immigration and lost the confidence of the public. Starmer needs to resign.

Channel crossings are up this year, how is the France deal better?

I think a safe to say the majority of the British public are sick of it. I’d bet my house on Reform winning the next general election, because it’s clear as day this government isn’t going to stop the boats. No wonder we’re the laughing stock of the world.

The Dublin agreement was still better than nothing, as in the no deal Brexit.

Same with the France return agreement, better than the Rwanda plan that cost a lot and did nothing.

And ofcourse a working asylum processing system would save a lot of tax payers money

Agreed. Everyone wants the cost to be lower. However in context:
Its a 10 year cost so assume £1.5b per year
Which is only a small amount compared to the budget gap (various figures quoted but let's say £40bn pa)
I am pretty sure it comes out of Overseas aid budget as well. Yes of course its all taxpayers money but its overseas aid that is hit the most

It wasn't this government that stopped processing immigrants and just let the numbers in hostels (formerly hotels) increase. Guess there's some hotel owners making a pretty penny.

Serco pops up a lot.....

@WilfredsPiesyes you’re correct. It’s a shame this has grown as misinformation.

Absolutely. But state money to private equity, fantastic for shareholders to profit from the tax payer.

@Bagsintheboot @Whatafustercluck

Leaving the Dublin Agreement didn’t make the slightest bit of difference. The stats are publically available if you want to fact check.

Apologies for any spelling mistakes, I’m typing this without my glasses on, so it’s all a bit of a blur.

There is no excuse for 1000 people a day going onto PIP and nearly 10 million welfare claimants that aren’t pensioners.

New Labour and Bliar caused this, Tories made it worse, and Two Tier has just broken the camels back.

The ageing population is not just a UK problem.

The uk has really only been prosperous when allied to other countries resources- be that colonialism or offering a sanctuary for money launderers at the height of globalisation or aligning to the EU.

we haven’t a hope alone and will just continue to get more and more poor and miserable

Follow. The. Money.

Always.

the contracts were agreed under the Tory government……who are the stakeholders here?

I agree!

In the fight to make this country less appealing to “chancers” we have successfully put off the great and the good- students, researchers, professionals etc who don’t want to come to the uk because it’s unwelcoming of foreigners and has a poor standard of living. They’re going to Canada, the EU or the Middle East who welcome them with open arms.

the report appears to refer to a 10 year cost of £15bn.

the deficit RR needs to fill is annual