‘Tories have sent more home secretaries to Rwanda than they have asylum seekers’ | Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary, says Labour’s immigration plans will “prevent boats arriving in the first place” as asylum seekers right now are effectively settled “in hotels at taxpayers’ expense.”
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[@kiriakoz]

This change in narrative by Times Radio is because Murdoch doesn’t like the look of supporting the losing team.

[@rocky76dude7]

Brit zombies are on the losing team .Name some differences in the electable parties and how their socialist spending is doable?

[@Flowergirl7x7]

You don't say!

[@kiriakoz]

@@Flowergirl7x7 i'm very smart, i figured it out by myself.

[@1972hermanoben]

It’s because Murdoch, like the rest of us, can barely tell the two parties apart from each other

[@jamesjames77777]

It’s sweet that everyone here still thinks democracy exists and murdoch is a passenger to all this.

[@robertclayton2482]

Months ago the Govt had spent 1.3 million pounds on this and they could not say where the money had gone and what it had been spent on.This is theft from the public purse,who is going to jail.

[@rogerpeberdy1878]

In stead of saying what Labour is going to do they should be talking about how they are going to get rid of all these migrants

[@Theactivepsychos]

Why would you get rid of _all_ migrants?

[@jamesjames77777]

Don’t worry Roger, it really isn’t a problem. You’re just made to think that so that you vote in a certain way.

[@grahamturner1290]

Goodbye Tories. It hasn't been pleasant.

[@rocky76dude7]

Funnier what full sugar labour gets in for the likes of you .

[@dee8501]

.....the Tory party may as well be Labour they certainly have not acted in the best interests of their Conservative voters. Things will only get worse under Labour....look at the Labour run cities, what a mess!

[@iggzistentialism8458]

"As of the end of 2023, the UK government had already paid £240 million to Rwanda. Additionally, there is a commitment for further payments, with a total of at least £370 million over five years. If more than 300 people are sent to Rwanda, the UK would pay a one-off sum of £120 million to boost the country’s economy, along with additional payments of £20,000 per individual relocated."

[@NoreenGoundry-iy4pb]

More than shocking!!!! Sack Sunak NOW. Make him repay ALL of this money!

[@georgesdelatour]

In 2022 alone, the estimated one-year cost for asylum-related spending, which includes hotel accommodation, allowances, healthcare, and school places, along with the sustenance of new units such as the Small Boats Operational Command, was approximately £3.5 billion. A significant portion of this, around £2.2 billion, was spent on hotel accommodations for migrants. This expenditure is significantly higher than the £630 million spent by the government tackling homelessness​​. Moreover, the healthcare costs related to the asylum backlog, which stood at 166,261 individuals at the end of 2022, were estimated to be around £700 million annually. The educational costs for providing school places for asylum-seeking children added another estimated £186 million per year​.

[@xaiano794]

​@NoreenGoundry-iy4pb he won't pay a penny and is probably getting kick backs from officials in Rwanda. The country just had to vote tory in the last election

[@Flowergirl7x7]

My gosh! No wonder they are Trying to Take Away Disability Benefits (like they did in 2010!) They've spent all the money!

[@keithcunningham6696]

​@@NoreenGoundry-iy4pb catch a grip of yourself woman. That's but a drop in the ocean in order to remedy the isssue. Billions have been spent to accomodate these people. He is liable for Billions worth of damage to the UK economy far more than he is worth the squirming underhanded rat.

[@carolnoble4615]

Why the strong interest in Rwanda? Are there no other places to go?

[@xaiano794]

You can't just fly random people to random countries. I know this seems like an odd statement to most tory voters, but it becomes apparent when you flip it round. South Africa gets tons of immigrants, so you think they can just fly them to the UK? Of course not

[@keithcunningham6696]

Well to you i would say, from this plan to send asylum seekers off to rwanda( or a place with no economic advantage) started to be a realistic fear for those affected. The place i reside (Northern Ireland) has been absolutely inundated by what appears to be "the target market" They have been arriving on mass. Uninvited, and unvetted may i add for the last 5 or 6 months to a place that cannot sustain their claims. It's economic migration not asylum seeking. Throughout my entire life i have never seen generosity like it. They have all fled England knowing what is ahead and are landing on mass and receiving on arrival housing, wages for no work, free smartphones for communication, paid transport( until they found a loophole claiming persecution from locals and received free vehichles, tax and insurance. schooling for their children ahead of citizens who have lived and payed into their locality all their lives as schools fear the race card, aswell as places at GPs ahead of people who were born to the area. So yes they can indeed send people off to random countries, it's just a matter of which country. Also just goes to show how bad the prospect of living in rwanda actually is when people from the same African continent would rather reside in one of the most dangerous places in the world knowing it paid well rather than move along.

[@mrmillslee]

Just come out the ECHR ACT 1998 - Nigel Farage and many others have already said this is the answer. Labour won’t come out if the ECHR so that’s all you need to know about labour.

[@vylbird8014]

There aren't many countries willing to accept these particular asylum seekers. They are the unwanted of the world. Everyone agrees that they deserve to live in a place of safety, and that places should be somewhere else. Rwanda is willing to accept them, but only because the UK agreed to pay the government of Rwanda a substantial pile of money for each person deported there. And even then, there's a good chance Rwanda is going go try to pressure them into leaving afterwards. It's all very well talking about the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but that sort of promise is quickly forgotten when they are on your doorstep.

[@Infinitystar225]

​@mrmillslee the fact that the Tories need to circumvent human rights in order to push the Rwanda plan should speak enough about the morality of the whole situation.

[@steveholmes381]

The one 'volunteer' they did send has disappeared, still in a few weeks time the same will happen to the Home Secretaries 🤞

[@vijayafernando1]

Immigration will stop immediately if the uk£ is devalued.

[@Whalewraith]

They've also had more prime ministers in the same period.

[@NoreenGoundry-iy4pb]

I have never seen just blatant waste of money than this idea of Sunak.....Rwanda! How much????????

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

This woman should be the Prime Minister. In this case, cometh the hour, cometh the lady!

[@justafriend3408]

People may vote Labour not because the party has a clear agenda for the country but because the tories have failed in various areas and there are no other options. It's the tories campaigning for Labour, not Labour doing much of anything

[@kimaspindale9721]

Sunack toast History His cat could do a better job Delivered chaos disunity no truth no integrity A chocolate tpot

[@kevinb9830]

Given that they're nearly all economic migrants, that is probably true.

[@santander6317]

We need new political party stop being scared of criminals

[@olavmartinkvam4184]

Send more

[@philbrown8181]

Ouch... truth hurts.....

[@davidjames3787]

This is a five day old report, but it has garnered just 3,800 views. Independent content makers of political content can achieve x10 the number of views within five days. The mainstream media model is broken.

[@larrygerry985]

Keir is a middle class boy. His dad owned the factory for ffs

[@gio-oz8gf]

So, you'll be able to copy and paste the Companies House entry that proves his father owned the factory, won't you? No, you won't, because you're lying. Even if his father did own a factory, which he didn't, what is your point? Oh, I almost forgot, ffs.

[@michaelspencer6318]

show us the evidence ,troll.

[@user-jg2nq6ll4c]

Policy failures ON PURPOSE ......... as instructed by the WEF.

[@johnreid9959]

Keir Starmer pretending to bf working class is enbaressing his dad owned thd tool factory

[@kimaspindale9721]

Rwanda a joke 400 million of wasted money Yvette Cooper maker Mr Cleverness look pretty hopeless Talks sense

[@33andathird]

She hasn't got many books on that bookcase, has she? Just a few thin ones and even those aren't very well stacked. All a bit of a mess really. I reckon that's veneered chipboard. It's strong enough but always has a bit of a tacky feel to it. Doesn't really need to be strong if you've barely got any books of course. I reckon she could get rid of the whole thing and have a bit more room to dance about in. Might cheer her up a bit. Anyway, this is clearly Labour mismanagement of resources and I won't be voting for them. Vote Reform. Get rid of mismanaged Uniparty interior decor!

[@vylbird8014]

The full bookcase was once a way to proclaim one's intellectual environment. But now people have moved to ebooks because they are just a lot more convenient than the paper sort.

[@kevin02mulder]

lol

[@Flowergirl7x7]

None of them are TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRATION! VOTE REFORM 🙏🏻🇬🇧

[@andrekrouwel4333]

What a horrible journalist who does not listen to the answer and then draws his own conclusion not at all in line with the answer given. Going to use this in class as an example of belief superiority

[@davidcooks2379]

Will Labour commit to net zero migration?

[@xaiano794]

Labour had immigration 500,000 per year lower when they were in. I find it crazy that you don't think that's better

[@star-ed7fj]

😆

[@MerryOlSoulGigglesmith]

And labour will bring the entire world to the UK

[@freddysw]

The whole world, even the super-rich? that will be a huge tax base

[@pip1723]

The Tories the party of high taxes open borders and potholes they'll be out in a few week's thankfully.

[@SL89999]

Maybe then the bonkers potholes and poisonous sewage and declining productivity and high cost of living and inefficient taxes could be tackled? The UK’s jewels are its financial system, legal system and education system. If the next govt does not invest and protect those, the country will continue to decline. Immigration is a distraction from a failure to invest, protect and promote these areas of excellence by govts for decades. The UK’s GDP and productivity now ranks well below that of our special friend the US and former enemies Germany and Japan. What happened?

[@jimthompson9370]

@@SL89999what happened? Economic and social mismanagement since 1997. Then we lost the Conservative party to Social Democrats and yes, failed to invest for the future of this country.

[@kevinb9830]

@@SL89999 Our GDP has always been below the US. They are the world's foremost superpower.

[@michaelspencer6318]

I see the interviewer answered questions instead of listening

[@gogosegaga]

But labour will do nothing to fix anything. What's their policies!

[@methanedirigible]

You’ll find out when they’re in government on 5 July. You’d better start dealing with it.

[@jimthompson9370]

@@methanedirigible- so had you when the economy tanks.

[@methanedirigible]

@@jimthompson9370 It would have to be crazy times for it to tank worse than under Truss. That mess was record-breaking. Time to start coping I think, Jimmy.

[@jimthompson9370]

@@methanedirigible - are you a teenager? Truss’s calamity has been and gone. To refer to that reflects a lack of perspective and ideological bias. The Tories are a shower and need to be rebuilt, but Labour… They won’t be able to keep their fingers out of the till. They’ll only be a one term government. At least we won’t have to cope for too long.

[@methanedirigible]

@@jimthompson9370 What are you basing your prediction for economy tanking on? You opinion of Labour based on their record? Or just pulling it out of the air? If it's the former, let me quote Jim Thompson who once said '[that] calamity has been and gone ... reflects a lack of perspective and ideological bias'. If it's the latter, I can only assume you're a teenager.

[@neelamacwan7670]

Shhhhh. Cooper

[@eugo5578]

VOTE REFORM

[@Dean-t1m]

Would or could Labour have done any better, doubt it they'll probably invite even more

[@logant6490]

Labour had said they will invest in the British workforce, which is the only way to fill jobs in key sectors and reduce immigration

[@AntonioRomero-te4cb]

Hey Mr Mustachio... Let's gear up and check out those Ukranian troops. Like real journalist. Let's go check it out Mr Mustachio. (This requires walking and silence) Good job mr m.

[@ShahNawazKhan-ud4sv]

Maybe the tories should move to Rwanda

[@VincentPeters-vs2us]

We can solve this private school matter straight away by granting all Schools charitable status, so they ALL operate VAT free.

[@PRAWDATOJEST-vd9eq]

Africans Latino americano can come to school in Eastern Europe, schools are free, health care is free, in Eastern Europe we have the lowest unemployment rate, shops are open on Sundays, you can earn extra money on weekends. Eastern Europe, Intermarium countries need workers for factories in industry, processing, for highway construction, road traffic, paving stone sidewalks, infrastructure.

[@nineteen8486]

All UN troops ....easy to find out

[@marumaru6084]

Where a country cares about its people there is a solution see Denmark where they dont we have this.

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

The six thousand children the tories lost over the last 4 years is why any policy is better then what we have.

[@mikeysting3635]

Your title is hilarious🤣 but bloody true 👍🏾

[@Charcmode]

More Home Secretaries to Rwanda than asylum seekers 😂 👍🏾.

[@stevefuller2933]

The big question in my mind is why were they allowed back from this apparent heaven on Earth?

[@vijayafernando1]

Does keir believe that socialism is inherited? Otherwise why does he mention his dad owning a tool factory

[@YaseenPatel-o1d]

😂😂😂😂😂Just for a political optics

[@xinma6034]

Back to India also a good choice

[@LondonSingh24]

Fedup From tories

[@alandraper7901]

Evette Cooper mimicking Keir Starmer word for word. It's like reciting from the labour book of Keir. You must say what he wants everyone to say. Or else labour camps.

[@monged4life442]

No it's having a campaign strategy... Strategists brief everyone who is going to appear in front of the cameras what to say, so everyone has a united front and details remain consistent The Tory approach of late of 3 ministers giving completely different answers to what the national service plan looks like is not better than that...

[@gio-oz8gf]

Her name is Yvette, that shows how much attention you're paying.

[@alandraper7901]

@gio-oz8gf Another Geek who's more concerned with the spelling than the message. Who cares if her name begins with E or Y. You knew exactly who I'm talking about. She still mimics Keir Starmer, as does the rest of the labour front bench. Not one of them is allowed to think for themselves. Rachel Reeves is possibly the only exception. Who is promising absolutely nothing different than now.

[@CryWillus]

@@alandraper7901 Despite your derogatory name calling I'm going to dignify you with a response because your posts come across as simplistic and poorly thought out. Have you considered that maybe the Labour front bench worked together with their advisers to come up with a united message that the party can stand behind? Do you really think the fact that they are united in their messaging is a bad thing?

[@killickr]

What exactly is Starmer's "Border Security Command" going to actually do to cut immigration, apart from adding more costs to the tax payer for a truck load more of civil servants?

[@tombowen6430]

Trouble is, all the Home Secretaries returned.

[@pinkpanther7030]

How can they be all asylum seekers? The number is too high in so far. Rwanda can take just some hundred. It's only a deterrent to discourage the illegal ones to cross the English channel. This problem has been caused by tolerance and openess of the good Brits towards foreigners coming here.😏

[@xaiano794]

No it was caused by Brexit, that's why migrants coming across the channel increased 2,900% 2019-2022

[@xaiano794]

I'll point out that not only was this pointed out by David Cameron before the vote and printed on the front page of even the most pro Brexit newspapers (Feb 8th 2016) but he even got the numbers right, projecting that 50,000 per year would cross the channel post Brexit

[@vylbird8014]

There really isn't such thing as an illegal entry for an asylum seeker - when they apply for asylum, any illegal entry is effectively forgiven. It's part of the Refugee Convention, because people who are fleeing persecution from their own government might not be able to secure a passport and visa to travel legally. Remember that the convention passed in the aftermath of WW2, in response to the struggles of people trying to flee from the Nazis - they didn't easily hand out travel approval to Jews. So the convention gives anyone a right to apply for asylum if they can make it into a member country. Even if they had to bribe a checkpoint guard, sneak across a border, or pay a smuggler for a place on a ramshackle rubber boat.

[@Liamella23]

"the burden of asylum seekers" what an awful way to refer to people seeking refuge from terrible situations.

[@davidcooks2379]

It's a misnomer. These people are seeking asylum but they are not persecuted. They are just lying that they are persecuted. They are just lying economic migrants

[@billhickok5535]

it is a burden tho lets be honest nothing to do with tax payers why they are fleeing their homes. why do we all have to carry the burden? money is better spent on our towns our homeless our schools our infastructure, now more schemes will be created to tax us on. i remember my gran saying the only thing we dont get taxed on is the air that we breathe oh the laughs we could have if she was here to witness us being taxed on air ha

[@williampinchers]

Most are economic migrates since when is there a war in Albania Pakistan or in most of the countries they come from.

[@LadyGds]

REFORM!!! REFORM!!! REFORM!!!

[@andrewdilworth9180]

Unfortunately reform would stop the boats. But would ruin this co economy it’s a win

[@thetruth156real3]

Yet the British working class love them, and have done for 14 years.