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RubberDuck@lemmy.world to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 10 months ago

Failed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette Cooper

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Failed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette Cooper

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RubberDuck@lemmy.world to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 10 months ago
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Home secretary describes Tory policy that Labour has axed as ‘the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen’
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    Cooper said the £700m cost included £290m payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining people and then releasing them, and paying more than 1,000 civil servants to work on the policy.

    I’d be interested in a full breakdown of where the money went, because I wouldn’t be surprised to find Tory chums creaming off millions.

    If we could get a chunk of that back along with the PPE rip-offs then that’d help the bottom line.

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      Tory chums creaming off millions.

      I know what you meant in this context… but come on.

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        Coming on is part of the process I gather

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          Oh god. Meta-phrasing.

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            Torinception

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          And what do you do once you’ve gathered it, dare I ask?

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            You get to be a Prime Minister and your boarding school chum gets a helpful dossier for later use.

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