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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Tory chums creaming off millions.

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Coming on is part of the process I gather

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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

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