Idiot civil servant sent 3,557 Channel migrants 'you're off to Rwanda' letter and now they've vanished - Kelvin MacKenzie

And what do you think happened next?

Of the 5,700 migrants who received the letters only 2,145 of them can now be found. The other 3,557 cannot now be ‘’located’’. That is civil servant speak for vanished. Disappeared. Legged it. Run off. Hiding out. Or have taken the ferry to Ireland.

Surely it occurred to the dolts at the Home Office that if you alert the migrants in advance that they may be flown to Africa to wait, for an unspecified time, to know their fate they may not hang around in the joint supplied to them by the government.

The migrants picked out for Rwanda (it’s quite nice this time of the year) all arrived illegally on our shores in small boats between January 2022 and June 2023. So, these folk have been looking at this letter for the best part of a couple of years knowing that the moment was coming closer and closer.

And now with the Rwanda bill having sailed through Parliament it’s time to tell the migrants to prepare for taking the first flight in around a couple of months. And that, of course, was when the ghastly truth emerged.

They knocked at the door, rang the bell, made a phone call and surprisingly nobody was in. The Times quote ‘’sources’’ at the Home Office saying they accepted that there was a significant risk that the migrants would abscond following the Rwanda scheme getting the green light.

The migrants knew that they would be taken from their current accommodation and moved to one of the UK’s permanent immigration removal centres where they will be kept until take-off. There will still be enough of them to fill up the planes, but what has happened to the rest.

The most likely outcome is that they will have disappeared into the ‘’black’’ economy (surprised that expression hasn’t been banned). Hard to believe Deliveroo could function without the illegals.

I also liked columnist Richard Littlejohn’s idea. Instead of flying them to Rwanda why not let them all take the Ferry to Northern Ireland and then hand them the price of the bus fare to head to Ireland. So we fall out with the Irish? So what.

They are no fans of ours, nor would you want to be friends with a nation that remained neutral throughout World War Two.

The only good news to emerge of late is that according to the same Home Office document which revealed that thousands of illegals had disappeared was that there were now 34, 113 migrants had now been told that there asylum claim had been deemed ‘’inadmissible’’.

The Afghans make up the biggest ‘’inadmissible’’ group, followed by Albanians, Iranians, Eritreans and Syrians. My issue is that under the Rwanda deal they can only take a couple of thousand migrants.

So, what are we going to do with other 32,000? They can’t all be Deliveroo drivers. There is some suggestion that other African nations want to do a Rwanda i.e. Take a few thousand migrants in return for potful of gold.

I like that. What concerns me is how are we going to get thousands of angry migrants on to flights for Africa. If we aren’t prepared to do that (can you see Starmer okaying that response?) are we going to be lumbered with these ‘’inadmissibles’’.

Will they simply go into hiding? Or turn to crime? None of these prospects are good and are the result of the Tories failing to act sooner to literally push back the boats. Until we do that we will have to live with the consequences.

It will be us, not the Tories, who will suffer. They will be long gone, with the prospect of being out of office for a decade or more.

Instead the nation will have a Labour government, with the biggest majority in history, basically telling migrants come on down, you will very welcome.

How awful. See you at Heathrow’s T5, around 7.30am, on November 15. My advice is to get there early. There will be a crush to get out of the country.