The government is up to its usual tricks with this Rwanda diversion. It's not the action that's the diversion, it's the consequences - which are more of a Trojan Horse and a trap. A silly trap, but a well used one we should be used to by now.
- It's illegal under our current laws, and the government knows it's illegal.
- It's an opportunity for the government to claim they tried to do something, but were stopped by 'lefty lawyers' and the judiciary.
- Cue headlines in the Tory press accusing the judiciary and legal system of being 'Enemies of the People'.
- The racist and brain-dead arm of the Tory faithful will lap it up.
The problem with this tactic is that it will only appeal to the brain-dead Tory racists, who are not a majority within the party - in no way will it save the Tories from decimation at the local elections. It will, in fact, galvanise those on the brink of being exasperated with the man-child who is leading the government into becoming determined opponents.
The Express is maintaining that Labour is being hypocritical because Tony Blair came up with a similar policy in 2004. However, Blair suggested setting up processing centres near to the countries most affected by war - an example of Tanzania was used in respect of refugees from Eritrea and Sudan. It was not proposed that Tanzania would be the only processing centre.
Additional to the foregoing, Tony Blair was PM in 2004, not Keir Starmer, who was not even a politician in 2004 - he was not even DPP till 2008. It's not logical to associate Starmer and today's Labour Party with events of 2004. How far back does the Express want to go in its desperate attempt to justify the unjustifiable - Gladstone?
Lastly, a statement by the UK’s international ambassador for human rights, Rita French, in July 2021 expressed “regret” that Rwanda was not conducting “transparent, credible and independent investigations into allegations of human rights violations including deaths in custody and torture”. The UK itself has given sanctuary to some 200 refugees from Rwanda in the last 10 years.
In summary, it's designed to fail - much as the Ukrainian refugee system- and is merely a Trojan Horse to justify attacking the left, which these days is everything to the left of the rightmost part of the Tory Party, which is becoming more UKIP by the day.
It's also a well established modus operandi of the government when faced with problems of their own making - Brexit being an example. No-one gave the slightest thought to Northern Ireland, so blame the consequences on an intransigent EU, rather than your own ineptitude. Again, the walking dead lap it up.
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You say "The racist and brain-dead arm of the Tory faithful will lap it up." Correct, but that is just about all of them.
"it will only appeal to the brain-dead Tory racists, who are not a majority within the party". I'm not too sure about that, it is what was claimed prior to Brexit proving otherwise, just as it was claimed in the USA prior to Trump being elected.
Sad;y, Western democracies are sliding into fascism and I fear there is precious little we can do to stop this.
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