IMMIGRATION. The figures.

?The figures are approximate as they come from differing estimates, some of which are difficult to get.

Our fair country has 1,200,000 illegal immigrants, some of whom have been here for over ten years and have families, children, businesses, and homes. Going back in time a little, we initially encouraged immigration. All seemed well until the word spread of our pavements of gold incorrectly. Then in more modern times, natural disasters, wars, bloody-minded dictators and the search for a better life increased the flow. Finally, many who could not obtain a legal visa or got fed up waiting for an increasingly inefficient visa system that disgraced us in Ukraine decided to come regardless, so the stream started. First, it was trucks on the ferries, and, from the news, comparatively, few made it. So the problem was considered to be controllable.

Then came the realisation that boats could be used, with the difficulty of stopping them, as it is elementary to slash the rubber or throw the odd child in the water. Should any child die, you can imagine the fallout from that.

Out of interest, the Royal Naval task force set up to accomplish this didn't last very long either when they realised the impossibility of achieving it with their very modest, suitable assets. So another few million was wasted.

One of the joys of being in government is the fun of spending other people’s money.

In 2022 we deported 3025 immigrants. At this rate, with no further influx, we will be able to clear the country in 396.7 years. Although by then, all the British will have emigrated, so there will be no one left to pay for it.?

Hopefully, our government has realised that this means we cannot clear the country by the next election unless, as an ex-football player and crisp salesman recently put it so eloquently, turning to the Nazi solution of Adolf H and his cohorts. Fortunately, we are not barbaric, so we have the resolution to abandon our human rights agreements and send them to Rwanda.?

?Eventually, removing illegal immigrants will require building 6000 hotels based on a 200-person occupancy.?

Australia has run a similar system sending their illegal immigrants to Nauru and other islands at the cost of 5.2 billion over ten years, sending 3124 immigrants. Bringing that figure into line with our 3025 gives a charge of 5.03 billion over the next ten years.?

What about the cost?

Three thousand one hundred twenty-four people will require 15 hotels at around ￡30 million each to build, so now we have a figure of ￡450 million p.a.

The cheapest accommodation in Rwanda is around ￡40 a day. So let us say we could negotiate a deal for ￡30. So three thousand one hundred twenty-four immigrants will cost ￡ 34,207,800 PA.

Over the next 400 years, the figures become superfluous as the country will be bankrupt well before that.

I could carry on, but it is rather pointless as such a scheme could only have been drawn up by those desperate for votes and smoking something rather heavily that I would love to try.?

Fortunately, regardless of the extremists, we are still a democracy. But, to survive, we need a system that ensures fairness, recognising the individual's rights and the freedom that individuality allows. That is called Human Rights. We play with that at our peril.?

As the present solution is total nonsense, we may now have to consider one that I never thought I would contemplate, bearing in mind that I am politically slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, who was a bit of a softie, and wish to burn Wokes at the stake to help with the heating costs.?

Amnesty. For all those illegals presently here.?

Amnesty gives us breathing space to start again with proper border controls and visa services at our embassies instead of the travesty we saw in Ukraine and agreements that work with the European Union and France in particular, as that country is essential in dealing with the situation.

If we could grant that, bearing in mind the ability to impose suitable caveats such as employment in the health service or other relevant work for a qualifying period as well as removal of any criminal element, then instead of detention camps and hotels and people living outside our society, we can educate, collect national insurance and taxes and give these people a chance to add to us instead of imposing on us.?

Thus, giving them an interest and a share in our country would benefit us more than pursuing a failed removal system. Best of all is the economic advantages.

?The low figure for the Average salary is ￡30,000. Let us say 1000000 gain employment bringing in the tax and national insurance of ￡6.152,000,000 p.a. All this, added to the almost 1 billion saved on deporting costs, gives an overall benefit of at least 7 billion p.a. plus the benefit of adding money to the economy with the advantage of business, and the workforce. We could even use that money with France to stop the illegal boat outings across the Channel.?

For those who argue that they would use our services and clog the system, I hate to tell you, but they are already doing that. The final irony is that those services we complain about slowing or losing for our native population survive with the considerable support of immigrants.

The. choice is relatively simple. On the one hand, we can spend over a billion pounds a year on a hair-brained scheme of sending people to a distant African country that they can leave and return for another try.

Meanwhile, we still keep thousands in hotels with meals and allowances while processing, while 281,000 people, including 123,000 children, are homeless.?

Of course, we could advise all people without housing to get into rubber boats at night, paddle a few miles offshore, wait for rescue, not speak English, and get put into hotels along with the immigrants.

?Or instead, absorb 1.2 million illegal immigrants already here, and save at least 7 billion that can be used to set up a workable system of visas and border control with France. The only suitable place the influx of boats can be stopped is on the beaches of France, not at sea.

Seven billion would certainly persuade and assist France in assisting border control there with a little more enthusiasm.?

Then the politicians can stop concerning themselves with illegal immigration and deal with more serious matters such as the Health Service, Police, and above all else, the support of our armed forces, which in these rather dangerous times should be the government's top priority.?

We can remain within the Convention of Human Rights that we helped to write and ensure I can write whatever rubbish I want. Hopefully, I will also be able to find a nurse or a social worker to help me pee. Not yet, I hasten to add. I think that saving 7 billion pounds a year is well worth it.