Your personal experience of the system clearly gives you a much better understanding of the difficulties we face than many on here. Tackling the people smugglers at source always seemed the answer to me, but the more I know, the harder that actually seems, as there are so many of them, using a great variety of routes.

Do you think this new scheme has any chance of success, or is, as I suspect, just a political gesture? If not, is there anything else, practically, that you think we can do?

Johnson described Rwanda as one of the safest countries in the world and said the plan was an “innovative approach, driven by our shared humanitarian impulse”.

Really then why does the UK grant asylum to refugees fleeing from Rwanda?

'UK condemns Rwanda for human rights abuses' two months ago.

All of these problems will evaporate when nations get serious about this problem. The whole process needs to be much more efficient and smart.
It's no good people like Wisbech telling us why things can't be
done.
We need people who can make it happen. If laws and red tape are the problem, then they have to be changed.
This issue is too serious for it to continue as it has done.

But the 'nations' allow it. That is the point. If they wanted to stop it, they would. Instead they don't. They encourage it. Look back to the removal of Gaddafi. That opened up Europe to mass migration from Africa. And for what? A deliberate, NATO led, action that caused nothing other than mayhem and chaos. Deliberately causing instability and encouraging people smugglers, of every kind to act. Followed by Syria and numerous other conflicts, all of which have been deliberately orchastrated by both Western and Israeli interference.

This current proposal is all froth. The institutions in the UK simply will not do what their political masters tell them to do anyway and every obstacle will be put in the way, giving the Tories an excuse to hold their hands up and say that at least we tried.

What we have witnessed since 2011 has been deliberate and top-led. None of this is accidental.

Edited by Matov (15 Apr 2022 4.20pm)

UK condemning Rwanda July 2021:-

A statement by the UK’s international ambassador for human rights Rita French in July 2021 expressed “regret” that Rwanda was not conducting “transparent, credible and independent investigations into allegations of human rights violations including deaths in custody and torture”.

She added: “We were disappointed that Rwanda did not support the UK recommendation to screen, identify and provide support to trafficking victims, including those held in government transit centres.”

Number from Rwanda:-

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda despite granting the past decade, with 69 given asylum or humanitarian protection between 2011 and 2021.