One Billion Euros to the Pound

As seems to happen all too often these days, Britain is being outperformed by the lowly Italians; and now in no less an arena than the mutually totemic business of wog disposal. True, the Meloni fraternity's scheme to ship asylum seekers to Albania has resulted in only twenty-four deportations, none of which was permitted to stand; but the guards are having a nice time courtesy of the Italian government, and one of the detention centres has been unofficially converted into a shelter for stray dogs. Though undeniably expensive, this is considerably more than was ever achieved by the Rwanda scheme.