Last one in the Jacuzzi gets sent back home

THERE’S a catch. of course there is. There’s always a catch. Tucked away in the small print of Priti Flamingo’s asylum deal with Rwanda is a clause that could come back to haunt her.

as part of the package which would see cross-Channel migrants flown to Kigali for processing, the Government has agreed that refugees currently living in Rwanda can be flown to Britain for resettlement.

Just as it’s sensible not to judge a Budget until the dust has settled a couple of days later, the same should also apply automatically to other big Government announcements.

after Priti’s big pitch on Friday, it emerged over the weekend that, while migrants landing in Kent will be given a one-way ticket to africa, others will be heading in the opposite direction.

Hidden in the small print is a reciprocal arrangement under which Britain will accept an unspecified number of refugees who have been unable or unwilling to settle in Rwanda, despite having been granted asylum.

It states: ‘The participants will make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom.’

That will include people with the most ‘complex needs’, including those with mental health problems.

So that’s what they mean by asylum. You don’t have to be mad to come here, but it helps.

Why? We are constantly told we are facing a mental health epidemic of our own. It doesn’t make any sense to import more sufferers from overseas.

OUR amazing NHS is already at breaking point, or so we are led to believe daily. Where are the ‘resources’ to deal with a fresh influx of mental health patients going to come from?

Where are we going to put them? The Government is already spending the thick end of £5million a day on hotel rooms for migrants.

Hotels have been block-booked by the Home office and are turning away paying customers. Families expecting to spend a relaxing Easter mini-break were told there is no room at the inn.

In maidenhead, Berkshire, handy for Legoland and Windsor Castle, the Holiday Inn is currently closed to tourists.

They’ve even refunded the subscriptions of local residents who had paid to use the gym and swimming pool.

The building is surrounded by security guards and on Thursday the only ‘guests’ in evidence were young men speaking arabic. It was a similar story at hotels in Derby, Eastbourne and on merseyside.

To be fair, Priti inherited this problem after 25 years of open borders, which followed Labour’s cynical decision to ‘send out search parties’ for immigrants to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’.

all attempts to stem the flow have been thwarted by self-serving Left-wing lawyers cashing in on Labour’s pernicious yuman rites act, cheered on by the ‘let ’em all in’ brigade.

The Rwanda deal, while extreme and possibly unworkable, is at least an imaginative effort to do something, anything, to turn the tide and deter desperate migrants from paying criminal gangs to smuggle them into Britain.

Not that ‘smuggle’ is the right word. most of them have been crossing the Channel in broad daylight, in plain sight, and have been ‘rescued’ by British border patrols. once here, it has proven impossible to boot them out.

The open borders lobby will fight the Rwanda deal tooth and nail, funded by taxpayers’ money in the form of legal aid. The courts will probably overturn it.

But that’s no reason for not trying. It has at least infuriated the usual suspects, from Pixie BallsCooper to the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Pixie, you may remember, never made good on her virtue-signalling promise to put up Syrian refugees in one of her two lovely homes.

The archbish kicked out a Syrian family of two adults and four children who had been given a temporary berth at his official residence, Lambeth Palace.

Yet Welby still felt able to devote his ‘Blessed are the People Smugglers’ Easter message to slagging off the Rwanda deal as ‘ungodly’, despite it enjoying the support of the majority of voters. and this hypocritical Godbotherer wonders why the churches are empty.

So THE Home Secretary is to be congratulated for grasping the nettle, even if it looks like clutching at straws. But under the reciprocal terms of the deal — which the mail only discovered after trawling through the whole document, paragraph by paragraph, subclause by sub-clause — what seemed to be a one-way ticket turns out to be a two-way street.

The Government insists the right of refugees currently in Rwanda to settle in Britain only applies to ‘a number in tens, not hundreds’.

But we’ve heard that before. Remember when we were assured no more than 13,000 Eastern European immigrants would come here after restrictions were lifted? Several million later . . .

The fear is that when the Rwanda deal becomes bogged down in the courts and the Flight of The Flamingo is still stuck on the runway at Biggin Hill, planeloads of refugees will be jetting in from Rwanda and heading straight for the Jacuzzi at the Holiday Inn, maidenhead.

and, here’s the catch. Given the law of unintended consequences, we could end up with more migrants than we started with.