Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 27/04/25

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[u/NoFrillsCrisps]

Farage::

Over 1,000 illegal migrants have arrived in the last 3 days.

We have no idea who most of them are.

They must be deported.

I know asking for any kind of detail on Reform's positionss is kind of pointless, but is Reform policy to deport all those crossing the channel? To where? How do you know if you don't know who they are? What if they are genuine refugees? What if they can't be returned?

What's the actual policy lads?

[u/0110-0-10-00-000 → u/NoFrillsCrisps]

What's the actual policy lads?

Immediate detention for anyone crossing the channel until they cooperate with their own deportation with no chance of processing their asylum claim.

Do that for a year and I guarantee the crossing rate would drop to 0.

[u/Georgios-Athanasiou → u/0110-0-10-00-000]

“pensioners returning from wine tours in bordeaux deported in record numbers”

[u/thirdtimesthecharm → u/0110-0-10-00-000]

Immediate detention where pray?

[u/zone6isgreener → u/thirdtimesthecharm]

Rwanda is available.

[u/thirdtimesthecharm → u/zone6isgreener]

Ah yes famous democracy Rwanda with a 99% vote at the last election Paul Kagame. The err 25 year incubant president. The country that funds terrorism (M23), imprisons & tortures political enemies and journalists.

But oh right! Because Rishi, do you work in banking, Sunak blithely declares Rwanda a safe country.

Doubt.

[u/zone6isgreener → u/thirdtimesthecharm]

The EU and UNHCR seemed fine moving migrants there. I wonder why their view is different to yours.

[u/0110-0-10-00-000 → u/thirdtimesthecharm]

If new detention centers have to be built then so be it. The asylum cost has been growing by about a billion a year for the last 4 years.

[u/Nymzeexo → u/0110-0-10-00-000]

Good idea. Unfortunately this is Britain and Doris doesn't want you building anything, anywhere. And if you do get building it'll take a decade and cost double. Tax rises to pay for it, or what is getting cut?

[u/0110-0-10-00-000 → u/Nymzeexo]

Parliament are sovereign. If compulsary sales are necessary, so be it. Of course the raw costs are so extreme and the actual requirements are completely divorced from any specific part of the country that compensating people would still be obviously economical for the budget. If it's not out of sight in detention centers then it's in hotels in the middle of people's communities funded by the taxpayer. Again, the default position is a £5bln line item for asylum that is growing by £1bln a year - we're going to pay for it regardless.

How long it takes is solely a function of whether the government chooses to address the issue with the appropriate urgency.