Rishi - why are you totally fixated on Rwanda?

A great many of the Asian immigrants with visas are here as students. Our local uni makes a great deal of money from Asian students.

The immigrants profile has changed though, from being mainly European to being mainly from Asia - India, Pakistan and China.

The asylum seekers come largely from Afghanistan, Iran, India? And Iraq.

So most immigrants of both sections seem to now come from the Asian continent

I don’t know about bringing disgrace on Britain. Other countries would not be interested , they have enough of their own problems just now. We very, very rarely see any news from over there and no doubt most countries are the same. All we get is America, natural disasters that are spectacular and sport. Britain isn’t on the radar.

So the fixation looks even more bizarre when looking at the immigration figures.

Net legal immigration last year 672000+

Asylum seekers 20k

All that money being expended on trying to stop a tiny fraction of the total amount and failing because Tory policies are set up to fail.

They are hopeless.

It is puzzling. He has set in train a policy that is dubiously legal and frankly inhumane that brings disgrace on Britain. He must know tis - surely he cannot be oblivious to this?

Our public services are in a dreadful state and yet he is happy to spend vast sums of money on this obsession. Might there not have been better immigration policies on which this money could have been spent? - tracking down those behind it all and bringing them to justice, speeding up the administration of vetting procedures?

He is doing himself no favours politically because his candidates in the GE will struggle to sell this to all but the most die-hard ultra right-wingers.

I agree with the comments above. The other stuff (aka the really important stuff) is way too hard and he is desperately trying to deliver something his core voters prioritise.

The Tories traditionally demonise people at the bottom of society including those on disability benefits and asylum seekers. They are the cause of all our woes.

This is fervently backed up by the right wing press who stir up hatred, use sensationalism and twist statistics.

It's a story as old as the hills and you only have to look at the readers comments in the Daily Mail to see how effective it is.

I also think he is trying to achieve something on a personal level before his party become toast.

He has no other policy plus his 5 priorities can never be met because his policy is such rubbish.
The only one with a remote chance if he can override the courts - both domestic and international - are the planes to Rwanda. But his big issue here is, that if he breaks international law, Rwanda says it wants nothing to do with it!

It won’t stop the boats of course but I guess he could claim in some weird way that his policy is working.

I see inflation is up today - wonder if he will say it is because of his policies as he tries to claim it is when it is dropping a bit.

Roll on the election.

Because he is "delivering on the people's priorities"...

I suppose he thinks that will get him more votes? Or maybe the other stuff is in the too hard basket.