He should spend the money sacking the HomeOffice teams and replacing them with actually competent people that can process claims quickly and efficiently.
Exactly, if their claims were processed faster and more competently (i.e. with very low likelihood of successful appeal), then the ones who are not genuine asylum seekers can be deported legally and quickly, which is surely a greater deterrent than the Rwanda scheme.
The majority of the civil service don't support those policies. It's not their fault that every now and then some crazy unelected "CEO" comes along and tells the directorate "now do this".
In the last ten years the Home Secretary changed eight times!
Most civil servants are good (for government workers) but the Home Office has been stacked with people by all the vile Home Secretaries the Tories have had over the last 14 years. Sacking them is prudent.
True, but they do move money through here, not just people. Plus, the plans include actually working with France and the EU, not just picking arguments to keep the europhobes happy.
Seems short sighted to announce this. The Rwanda money has already been spent so you're undermining any potential deterrent effect which might exist by saying it will be reversed straight away.
Could have let the Tories take the blame for the "evil" policy while reaping any potential benefits. It seems like there has been a limited deterrence so far given the news out of Ireland that they are receiving additional asylum claims at the moment.
It's only a deterrent to people already in the country, but Rwanda can only take about 150 people a year so it's not much of a deterrent. People going to Ireland are the ones selected. Now the government has to waste time, and money, selecting new people, presumably doing this forever until some of them hang around for some reason and get deported. Eventually 150 will be deported and then it will be a complete non-issue for everyone else.
One effect of the harebrained Rwanda policy was to drastically reduce the price of getting on the boats, so this announcement may reduce crossings as fewer will be able to afford it
y'all could just actually commit to net zero and mitigating climate change if you wanted to stop the boats but instead starmer just wants to be boris-lite as he turns labour into the new conservative party.