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Thursday, 14 April 2022
Rwanda - The Ultimate Dead Cat
There were, it seems, more of those pesky fines to come for alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his coterie of ineptitude. The ministerial resignations had begun. Some MPs were seriously considering revisiting that letter to the chairman of the 1922 Committee. A new “non dom” ruckus was brewing, this time concerning Sajid Javid. There was bad economic news on the way.
So what would the Government do? What would be a sensible way to proceed? How would a sensible Government use the scarce resources available to them in order to alleviate economic hardship? What would a sensible PM do to address questions around his leadership? What would sensible MPs have done? What would Nietzsche have done?
Sadly, Bozo and his cabinet, an increasing number of whom are dependent on him for their promotion and continuing presence on the front bench, do not occupy the same intellectual plateau as Nietzsche, this being confirmed when our free and fearless press was briefed overnight that refugees who travelled to the UK from France in inflatable boats would in future be sent to Rwanda, in east Africa, for processing.
To this end, our Benidorm holiday rep Priti Patel flew by taxpayer-funded very large and expensive private jet to Kigali yesterday, from where she posted a photo of her descending the steps from the plane to be greeted by a welcoming committee of very few people, with the comment “In Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of a significant moment for the New Plan for Immigration … Prime Minister [Boris Johnson] will set out the full detail tomorrow”.
Natalie Rowe, who is familiar with Bozo’s attitude to people who are not white, figured out what was going on. “Seems like Human Trafficking to me”. Meanwhile, Ian Fraser had figured out the why part. “This would be insane, cruel, inhumane, ridiculously expensive - and probably also illegal, given Britain’s obligations under the UN Refugee Convention. It's also a crude attempt to divert attention from [Partygate]”. How expensive would that be?
Robert Shrimsley of the FT had some thoughts on that. “Three points on Rwanda policy … 1) Last year Australia spent £461m to process 239 asylum seekers offshore … 2) The UK is spending £120m … 3) 600 people crossed the Channel on Wednesday … So either this is a stunt, to deter and ease political pressure or a lot more money will be needed”.
Two million notes a pop. So you’re looking at £1.2 billion, just for a day’s arrivals. Or somewhere around £35 billion a month. Along with the inconvenience of Parliamentary scrutiny, as Chris Bryant pointed out. “The PM is using the Rwanda plan to mask the fact that he’s the first occupant of Downing Street to get a criminal sanction. Pretty cynical really. Any plan should be announced to parliament first so it can face proper scrutiny”.
Scrutiny which might ask similar questions to that posed by Sam Freedman: “Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low”. Or, as Rob Hutton mused, those threatened with this new style of transportation could follow Bozo’s lead: “Asylum seekers should just tell the government that they've apologised, and now they want to get on with their jobs”. Quite so.
In any case, as Bryant noted, “The Rwanda plan will cost more than putting them up in the Ritz”. All that to pander to the Gammonati. Give it 48 hours to unravel completely.
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Since Rwanda is landlocked, the aircraft carrying these unfortunates will have to overfly $OTHER_COUNTRIES. Be a shame* if those countries decided not to allow this. Or else they've used Dominic Raabid's maps, which show the southern terminus of the Northern Line being in Kigali.
ReplyDelete* Lie
So.....can blue, red and yellow tory Britain get any lower?
ReplyDeleteOh yes indeedy.
Just wait until you see the next step down in the cesspit. We are nowhere near the bottom yet.
Desperation will ensure this osmosis of evil continues its creep across Britain. There is nothing, NOTHING, these people will not do to thieve and destroy lives and communities, even annihilate entire countries.
So what time is Bake Off on?
Forget any hope that Labour might make a commitment to end the transportation programme. Rwanda was never in the British Empire. But it is in the Blair Empire, the network of dodgy regimes and dodgy companies that have Tony Blair on their payrolls. And that is what matters to both parties. There is also an emerging Cameron Empire.
ReplyDeleteFrance bears a responsibility for those who are fleeing the never-ending aftermaths of the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Libya, but it bears none for those who are fleeing the never-ending aftermath of the disastrous war in Iraq. At the very least, Britain has as much responsibility for them as it has for anyone who was fleeing the war in Ukraine, a war in which Britain plays no part whatever.
As is also seen in aspects of the debate around Ukrainian refugees, who "look like us" and therefore run no risk of being sent to Rwanda, note the extreme hostility to single men. The impending census returns will confirm the inexorable demographic rise of men who had either never been married or who no longer were, and who either had no children or had been forbidden to see them by the Tory State in the persons of the only people who were still voting Labour.
The commercial and electoral implications of this confirmation will be enormous, and the fear of it has been evident ever since the merciless eradication of the Corbyn phenomenon in no small part because of its attractiveness to young men who neither saw deindustrialisation as a great achievement nor fancied being called up as cannon fodder, and who were voracious readers and thinkers while being no more enamoured of the education system than it was of them.
Imagine that a sizeable number of them had ever made it into the House of Commons, enough to question the waving through of any and everything in order to be home for babies' bath times, or the leaving of parliamentary seats effectively vacant for half a year or more while their MPs continued to draw full pay because they had lately given birth? Where would it all have ended? Where would it all end?
That private jet looks as if it would have cost a fortune! Was it specially repainted to say United Kingdom? How many people accompanied e Priti Vacant.
ReplyDeleteI think we should be told