Lucy

Tim Farron, "The amount money the Conservative government have wasted on the Rwanda plan so far is the equivalent of 5.7 million GP appointments" @timfarron #BBCQT "The Conservative party are pushing the Rwanda plan because they think it will give them a few points in the opinion polls" "75% of asylum seekers, when they are processed turn out to be genuine asylum seekers.. What would you want to happen to you if this country was an unliveable basketcase -audience claps- and that is your answer" "France takes 3x more asylum seekers than we do. Germany takes 4x as many. 17 European countries take more asylum seekers per head than we do" "How do we deter people coming here? Spend the Rwanda money on 6,000 case workers" "What would be a deterrent? 25% are not genuine asylum seekers. If we had a government that was competent enough to deal with the backlog, and then remove the people who are not asylum seekers, that would be a deterrent" "The Rwanda plan is a waste of time. A waste of your money that could be spent on the NHS" "They're playing politics with the lives of the most desperate people on the planet" "What 0.2% of all asylum seekers will go to Rwanda. Is that really a deterrent?" "Either Rwanda is a safe place, in which case it will not be a deterrent. Or it is an unsafe place and no decent government would ever send anyone there"