Hallelujah !I have less of a problem with the Reform UK solution to be honest.
As explained on QT last week.
Tow the boats back to France - which Reform says we have the right to do under some International treaties that I'm not aware of.
That should be easier than it once was, as the boats are now more often very large rather than tiny inflatables.
Or if towing the vessels is too risky, then take the people off their boats (as is done now) and then take them back to France in our rescue / patrol vessels.
Not saying I like the idea.
But I dislike it less than I dislike the Rwanda policy.
There are no neat and tidy solutions to this issue.
But if it's a lesser of two evils I would rather see hundreds of patrol vessels on the English Channel night and day, than the spectacle of people being rounded up off the streets and out of hotels, to be interned and then forced onto a flight to Africa.
The best way to stop the boats is to stop them.
Not hope that the people getting into them might get discouraged when a few hundred other people get flown to Rwanda.
That is very wishful thinking.
I can scarcely believe I'm beginning to contemplate the Reform UK solution. But then as mentioned, we are in the Twilight Zone now.
A strange parallel universe where compassion and humanity are luxuries of a bygone era.
We finally agree on this issue
We are bringing in the Rwanda scheme because all else (and particularly trying to get cooperation from France) has failed, not because we think it’s the ideal or comprehensive solution.
