Not one person has been accepted and evacuated from Afghanistan under Home Office Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme, launched in January, with those promised resettlement facing torture and death while they wait for a response - investigation by May Bulman & Nicola Kelly https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/03/revealed-uk-has-failed-to-resettle-afghans-facing-torture-and-death-despite-promise
Meanwhile, the govt has the gall to continue claiming they offer safe routes as an alternative to dangerous irregular journeys
The UK government, especially the home office are now a total waste of space.
I understand part of Brexit was about migration, however. Regardless of this we still have am obligation to refugees for example.
The current situation with people crossing in small boats, is an example of where we have failed to provide easy access to consulates, and properly tackled the smugglers who are just filling the gap.
I think we have only JUST prosecuted a trafficker after a boat sank, killing about 21 humans beings ( i use that instead of migrants) so more problems caused by a huge backlog in court cases.
So they know full well they can in effect, for money, provide a small (unstable) craft, if people die NOTHING will happen, or at least not quickly. So the do so under the noses of the French Authorities (who we are just throwing massive amounts of money at )
Surely we know who these traffickers are and have enough intelligence, evidence to hit them hard in the courts.
Meanwhile, we have recently had migrant children going missing from care, migrants fill hotels, awaiting a decision, (which seems to be talking far longer than it should) new home office staff are given cases that are beyond their experience level, which does not help either.
The home office are just forgetting that those crossing are human beings.
The whole situation is just embarrassing for the 5th or 6th richest country in the world.
