The Magic Money Bush

I said I wasn’t going to write about the Rwanda policy again that our government are still desperately pushing and I’m sorry that I’ve broken that promise, but I want to use it as an example. We are apparently sending £500 million to them over a few years and our former Home Secretary, Suella ‘Maniacally Laughing’ Braverman took a taxpayer funded trip to Rwanda to visit a housing development which we were told was to house the asylum seekers we were rudely shipping to them. This week we find out that the housing development has already sold 70% of the houses to local Rwandans.

Why is the British taxpayer funding affordable housing in Rwanda? Now if this was part of our aid budget and we were giving money to third world countries to build more sustainable houses or dwellings that would stand the test of time, I would not have an issue. I believe that we should give aid to countries less well off than ourselves. And we do receive benefits from that aid, like if those populations feel less threatened in their own countries and don’t feel the need to flee, it means there would be less refugees at our door. That’s one potential outcome.

So again, why is the British taxpayer funding affordable housing in Rwanda? 70% of the houses have been snapped up by locals, fair play. I mean the deal we have with Rwanda means we’d only fly about 300 asylum seekers to them anyway for £500 million so the locals may as well buy up most of the development. I still choke on the millions per person this deal represents.

It begs more questions. Why can’t we spend £500 million on affordable housing in our own country? We’re constantly being told about the cost of living being exacerbated by a housing shortage, meaning house prices are higher and rents are higher. So why couldn’t we funnel some of those millions and millions into housing developments here? Why not? Why couldn’t we take that £500 million and spend it on our immigration system. Open safe and legal routes, employ more border force officers, clear the ever expanding backlog. Use that money to fix issues in our country, because it’s not a part of the aid budget. It’s Home Office spending.

We’re told at the moment, seemingly constantly, that there isn’t money for this or that. We can’t give doctors a pay rise because we don’t have the money. We can’t fix the crumbling schools because we don’t have the money. We can’t build HS2 because we don’t have the money. We can’t prop up our failing councils because we don’t have the money. That’s horseshit. I can see a spare £500 million going to waste. Maybe we could cancel this Rwanda plan shite and divert some money to something which will actually have a material affect on our country and things better here.

And so the example of the Rwanda policy is one of money. It’s an example of a political choice. Those cunts in government are choosing to carry on and spend and spend and spend on something that won’t work and is grossly overpriced because it makes them feel better and a certain part of the electorate get a little semi on when they read about it in the paper or hear about it on the news. We have money to spend, we need a government which will make better choices with that money.