Millions blown in Rwanda scandal

I find it appalling that the Government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost us taxpayers £1.8million for each of the first 300 people sent there.

How on earth can any sane government truly believe that we can afford this kind of spending?

And just to put salt in the wound, they have the nerve to send James Cleverly to Rwanda at a cost of more than £165,000.

Do they think that the electorate will just take this?

Come the General Election we will make no doubt our feelings known – and make sure that this absurd plan is scrapped.

William Davison, Margate, Kent.

The overall cost of this ridiculous Rwanda scheme will cost half a billion pounds.

Has Rishi Sunak forgotten we are in the middle of a cost of living crisis? So while more people than ever are using foodbanks, his priority is to use money from the public purse for this?

So far, not one asylum seeker has been sent to Rwanda but this scheme has already cost millions.

Steven Williams, Nuneaton

Even if no-one is actually sent to Rwanda, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has still signed up to pay the country a total of £370million over five years. How has the Government been allowed to get away with this? They have sidestepped disclosing the real cost of the Rwanda plan for years – probably because they knew that the public

would be up in arms about it. The real solution is not sending people to Rwanda but to fix the broken immigration and asylum system.

Frank Levington, Bedford

It is making my blood boil that Cleverly has gone to Rwanda on a one night visit costing more than £165,000. What has he had for that price? The best steak and caviar?

It is scandalous that these Tories seem to think they can go on jaunts at the taxpayers expense.

The total bill for Rwanda is set to cost more than £350million over five years with not a soul flown out there yet – but when it comes to our NHS junior doctors wanting a pay rise the Government seems to be deaf to their pleas.

Dave Mellor Warrington

I completely agree there is little evidence to show that the Rwanda plan offers value for money. It also breaks international law.

Nobody wants to see these crossings across the Channel and something urgently needs to be done about the situation.

A more valuable use of resources

and money would be to solve the problem at source – and that means smashing the criminal trafficking gangs who are making money from this abhorrent trade.

Lesley Barnett, Norwich

I find it absolutely obscene that doctors are having to go on strike for decent pay, and that nurses’ real-term wages have fallen so far yet MPs can seemingly just get a pay rise automatically.

The Tories also seem to “magically” find millions for other things such as the Rwanda situation. This is hypocrisy, wrong on every level and so hypocritical.

D Richens, South East London

Not only did Home Secretary Cleverly go to Rwanda but it’s been reported there were about 14 people on the trip from his office and a BBC TV crew.

Was that really necessary? More money wasted on a scheme that can’t even get off the ground.

The UK Supreme Court has already ruled the Tories’ Rwanda asylum policy ‘unlawful’.