that's not a joke. that's an actual policy. it's based on an act of parliament that declares rwanda a "safe country" and is accompanied by a large cash transfer to the genocidal dictator of rwanda, who has run the country without elections since 2000.
rwanda was of course the site of a relatively recent round of genocide, based on tribal bickering. you couldn't come up with something that was more mean-spirited if you tried to.
and, the media is concerned about marine le pen.
is there a core of a good idea here, though?
australia is apparently full. so, i might suggest instead that they make it an eu wide policy and that they exile all of the migrants to elba, and then dare them to try to escape to a stable of white horses waiting in a remote village not far outside of marseilles.
so, europe has a problem with immigration, but it has international law to deal with, as well. over-population has consequences, and we're dealing with it in canada, too. i actually don't think there would be much particularly wrong with shipping the migrants out to a detention centre on a remote island, so long as it's relatively humane conditions, and then processing them at a reasonable rate and sending them back. however, it would really have to be a block-level decision and not one made individually.
there is, thankfully, essentially no possibility that the tories are going to win the election on thursday, but they should not be allowed to live this down. this should be remembered at every election for decades.