If the government had fronted up the money to do that, then yes, it might have worked. As I’ve already said, multiple times. The fact that they weren’t willing to do so shows exactly how unserious th… (View Post)

No, that number I quoted /only/ included the costs the Rwandans were charging us /per/ asylum seeker. It included none of the fixed costs, nor the bonus £120million we were going to pay them once we … (View Post)

I agree, the price would have probably changed: the sensible thing for the Rwandans to do once it became clear that we were willing to pay whatever it took to make this scheme happen would have been … (View Post)

Presumably down to infighting going on in the Treasury over the autumn statement. Leaks from supporters / opponents (who knows which?) of two different property taxes is just the start. The UK financ… (View Post)

Yes. They seem to have been steadily churning through the backlog left them by the incompetence of the Conservative government. Not that you’d ever learn this from hysterical DM headlines. Sometimes … (View Post)