Jenrick Gone

I think there'd be a big risk to him from her supporters if he did. It looks like he's too weak to carry it off.

 

Fair point. Although he could just keep kicking them out too

Just looking at the cost of the Rwanda scheme today. You can book 90 days in a top hotel in Kigali for £10-12,000 - so call it £50k per year. 200 refugees = £10million/year. Average salary there is ~£1000/year, so you can hire a team of 25 to deal with each of them at double the average wage for another £10m/year. Yet the scheme is costing £140m per year.

In other news, the Conservative Party announced donations of £15m this quarter.

 

Agreed. There's no way they're going to disappear quietly into the sunset.

Although I have never voted Tory, many of their cabinet members of the past included some very fine minds and honourable people. Genuine political rivals. You may not have agreed with everything that they said, but you could rarely question their integrity or motivation to make Britain a better place.

Michael Heseltine
Ken Clarke
Geoffrey Howe
Douglas Hurd
Nigel Lawson
John Major
Michael Portillo
Alan Clark

Even Thatcher genuinely believed she was acting for the good of the country, and was actually pretty moderate compared with those in charge now. The party is full of fringe nutters, many of which are genuinely fcking thick as mince. It's absolutely terrifying. We need a general election now, before they do any more damage.

 

Lord Blunkett sets out the sheer lunacy of the Rwanda ("Dead Parrot") Scheme in The Times today. To try and pacify the Supreme Court, the UK government has agreed that those whose asylum claims are rejected will be returned to the UK, whereas those whose claims are allowed will remain in Rwanda and be accorded asylum there! It is absolutely barking!

 

And if any of them commit a crime in Rwanda, they'll be returned to the UK...

 

Sunak is giving a press conference at 11 am. This is supposedly to 'sell' the new treaty/legislation and head off the criticisms from Laurel and Hardy (Braverman and Jenrick). But it just seems a bit dramatic - it wasn't in the schedules. I wonder if he might lob in an election, or perhaps (more likely) threaten his own MP's with one if they don't tow the line.

 

Yeh seems to be after Bravermans speech in the commons' get ready for the letters of no confidence going in' he's edging his bets and obviously thinks he's currently on the wrong horse' don't worry he won't jump off the gravy train without a plan to get back on.

 

Nick Robinson speaking to Braverman...