Quote Originally Posted by pipster View Post
Forget the backlog issues and expanding that.

Like I said - you were PM today - by Monday - you had found them all somewhere to live, you have found them a job and got them access to schools, Dr's / Dentists etc. All good, you have fixed the immediate problem - well done.

But the problem still exists - small boats keep on arriving, only this time there is more as they now look at what you have done as PM, think - wow this is great and they do the same - jump on a small boat.

You still wont have fixed the small boat issue (unless you know something that Blair,Brown,Cameron,Clegg,May,Johnson,Truss,Sunak didnt know)

Within a matter of months you would be back to square 1 again, but it would be worse - so you would repeat your first policy of finding the second lot - homes, jobs, schools Drs etc and so on. You problem would be exponential - and you still would not have fixed it eg stopping small boats, trains, container lorries etc.

As with all things in life - when someone says well I'd just do that - bish bash - fixed - it very rarely is and it's usually a bit more complicated - which is why successive UK govts have failed.
This is a stupid scenario though. Nobody in here is saying we should let everyone who arrives stay. If you want to raise the bar for approval of an asylum case then that's another issue entirely.

Agree with the last part, which is why the Rwanda policy being heralded by braverman as the magic bullet is nonsense. It's an expensive policy that cheapens us as a nation, crosses moral and potentially legal red lines and might not even reduce crossings. Doesn't sound like it ticks many boxes to me.