Seems To Have Worked............

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1602913/channel-crossings-collapse-zero-dinghies-detected-boris-johnson-priti-patel-rwanda-ont
....So less drownings in the Channel then, TROB hand wringers should be delighted.

[youngmafbog]

Its's a start. Clearly they dont want to spend all that money on being trafficked over only to be sent straight out.

I suspect they will start up again though.

[TheChair]

From the article that you linked:
"Government insiders have claimed high winds in the Channel have led to the drop and fear summer months could see the figures soar again."

[youngmafbog]

Well I'm sure you for one will be happy with that TheChair.

[ToraToraTora]

A few days before the Rwanda thing was implemented there were hundreds in dingies. A few days after, none.

[webbo3]

Looking at the wind speed on Ventusky its not that windy.

[Ellipsis]

Correlation is not causation ...

[Gromit]

Crossings are usually weather related. I hope you are right and they have stopped.
But probably a little premature to be brown nosing Priti Patel. Let’s wait and see when the nice weather comes.

[Gromit]

// the Rwanda thing was implemented //

It was NOT implemented. And never will be. It will be quietly forgotten after next Thursday’s elections.

[ToraToraTora]

well whatever it's done Gromit, there ain't no dinghies in the channel!

[New Judge]

Just need to wait until one or two of these hearings are concluded:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/priti-patel-rwanda-high-court-home-office-archbishop-b996697.html

When this was discussed earlier a "government spokesman" said it was expected that the first deportations would take place in a matter of "weeks, or a low number of months". I've got that question diaried out for a review towards the end of August. We'll see then. I'll be absolutely delighted to be proved wrong. Alas I don't think that will happen.

[Gromit]

The bit at the bottom of the article which you didn’t bother to read…

// The figures for April 2022 mean the total number of migrants to arrive so far this year is 6,693 across 204 boats.

Some 1,425 of these had made it across since the Royal Navy took over control of migrant operations in the Channel on April 14. //

[youngmafbog]

Whats that got to do with the OP GRomit?

[fender62]

no mention of the ones who are not caught, that could run into the thousands over a yr few years, who knows...nobody.

[Gromit]

// Whats that got to do with the OP GRomit? //

There are been zero crossings this week, but 6,693 in the previous 14 weeks.

[ToraToraTora]

yes gromit but the point you are trying your best to ignore is that since the Rwanda thing there are none.

[ichkeria]

It hasn’t been implemented tho has it?

You’d probably expect a surge if anything as a sign that it would be a deterrent..
Either way, if no one is drowning then it’s good news.

[ToraToraTora]

judge, if non come none will be sent to Rwanda. It seems that just the threat of it is enough.

[New Judge]

Time will tell. Once the threat is lifted (which I believe it will be as soon as one of the legal challenges is concluded) or if not sooner, I believe the crossings will resume. The only way to prevent this is to physically prevent them landing here.

[Ellipsis]

Where did you get this from, Gromit ... I can't see it in the link in the OP or in NJ's Standard article:

> The figures for April 2022 mean the total number of migrants to arrive so far this year is 6,693 across 204 boats.
> Some 1,425 of these had made it across since the Royal Navy took over control of migrant operations in the Channel on April 14. //

If those numbers are correct then that's 1,425 in the two weeks since the deal was done with Rwanda, 21% of the 6,693 for the whole year to date ...

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "It hasn’t been implemented tho has it? " - has now:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61252068