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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The UK has already paid £270 million, with the latest £50 million instalment handed over in April. Nobody was deported, although two failed asylum seekers went to Rwanda voluntarily under a separate agreement that saw them offered a £3,000 incentive to go.

Just imagine what useful stuff could have been done with that money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They could have spent that on no PPE, or on not building a high speed railway, or failing to improve migration, etc.