He told the BBC: “In the short term, if you face three thousand, five thousand euros, you have to pay a trafficker to get to the UK, or Treasure Island as they call it, and if you think ‘Well, when I get to Dover they will send me to Lydd airport and will send me to Rwanda, this can be very disincentive. “So in the short term, if we do that and make it happen, in the short term it could act as a deterrent and that’s why I give it at least half the joy.” Mr Farage said the system was in danger of collapsing quickly. “So I see this as nothing more than a short-term solution, if it ever happens.”
