BETTER TO HOUSE MIGRANTS ON OUR ISOLATED ISLANDS THAN EMBARK ON THIS RWANDAN FOLLY

IT IS RARE for our habitually sceptical media to fall so hook, line and sinker for a Government “con” in the way they have swallowed the “Let’s ship them to Rwanda” idea. It is flawed from top to bottom.

This harmless country purports to be a democracy, so has anyone asked its people? One suspects large wads of British cash will find their way into the back pockets of Kigali’s high-ups.We have seen a lovely abandoned hotel that apparently will take up to a hundred happy campers while they are “processed”. Great. That’s about two days’ supply of the cargoes dumped nightly onto Kentish beaches. If our jobsworths “process” these as fast as Ukrainian visas they’ll be there for half a century.

We will also be shovelling thousands of tons of aviation fuel into the atmosphere – I thought that we were trying to protect the environment rather than befoul it. This massive population transfer can only achieve the opposite. And any illegal immigrant ingenious enough to have slogged from the Orient to Dungeness will be out of there and on his way back by nightfall, if the whim so takes him – and it probably will.

We have a score of offshore islands round our coasts, any one of which could rapidly and economically be converted into a staging post as the Australians most successfully do it.

Portakabin-style living accommodation could be helicoptered in, electric cable laid and water piped from the ground. Our Army engineers could do it in six months – but please not the bureaucrats. I have a feeling five years from now we’ll still be waiting for the Rwanda farce to see its first cargo. And a ton of our money mysteriously missing.