Rwanda flights shaming us all

■ We read about shortages of labour throughout the NHS, a lack of fruit and vegetable pickers, lorry drivers, cleaners, nursery staff, carers – the list goes on. There are 1.3 million job vacancies in the UK!

Refugees and asylum seekers keep arriving after dangerous journeys across the English Channel. Many of these people appear to be healthy young men looking for safety and a fresh start. Yet they are at risk of being sent to Rwanda.

This is an expensive and immoral “solution” to a “problem” that shouldn’t exist.

Why not welcome these young people and train them to fulfil some of the jobs the UK needs? Paul Methven Winscombe, North Somerset

■ Home Secretary Priti Patel’s obscene plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is a waste of money and will not stop desperate people crossing the Channel.

As the farce over Ukrainian refugees has shown, the UK’s entire asylum system is a mess.

Legal methods of applying are too complex and force people to use dangerous routes. Brett Grainger, Rugeley, Staffs

■ We have people who are so rich they will never be able to spend it all, and other people with so little they have to choose between eating and keeping warm. No thoughts from the rich about taking a bit less, so that more money can cascade down. And we also have a government which thinks it is fine to send fellow human beings 4,000 miles to Rwanda because they cannot be bothered to help them here.

I have never voted Tory, but it feels as if this uncaring behaviour happens in our names regardless of which party we support. Marian Hernes

Sutton, Surrey

■ If Prince Charles does believe sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is “appalling”, he is right. He, like many in this country, is disgusted at the Tory government.

These are inhumane decisions. Reg Barrett South Minster, Essex

■ Against the backdrop of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, it’s hard to feel national pride in a country that deports its asylum seekers to Africa. Whatever happened to British values?

Our workforce is depleted. Why not let these determined and enterprising people stay and contribute to the UK economy? Anne Watson, Truro, Cornwall

■ What an absolute waste of money as the Rwanda flight is grounded. These desperate people need help, not deportation.

Priti Patel should hang her head in shame. The deportation plan is a national disgrace. Dave Mellor, Warrington, Cheshire

■ In an attempt to justify the Government’s policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda in order to “stop people-trafficking” our beloved prime minister – who was recently fined for his part in the Partygate scandal – has stated “I do think it’s the job of the Government to stop people breaking the law and to support people who are doing the right thing.”

Pot? Kettle?

Roger Bowerman, London

■ There is a better way of treating asylum seekers than Priti Patel’s inhumane plan to send them 4,000 miles away to Rwanda.

Give asylum seekers a safe, legal route into the UK. Let them work and contribute to society.

Refugees should be treated as human beings instead of cargo. Sasha Simic, London