Cruel to be cruel

The Home Secretary is proposing that any immigrant that arrives in the UK through unauthorised routes will be sent back from whence they came.

Some problems with that plan:

1. It is unlawful under the Geneva Convention.

2. Since January 1st 2021, the UK has dropped out of the Dublin agreement on the return of refugees in the EU, no such replacememnt is in place.

3. There is no legal entry to the UK from 3rd countries.

4. It is being cruel just because they can.

I read this morning a piece which describes that Trump's administrations did things because they were cruel, that was the point. Cruelty wasn't a by-product, it was the point. To tie up lawyers in litigation, and to literally upset liberals.

Johnson says the same, the "Camden elites are out of touch" he says. This week he has sold an five storey townhouse in Camden for £3,500,000.

Its just a culture war.

Being cruel is the point, doesn't matter who gets hurt or affected, or that under these rules her own parents would not have made it to the UK at all.

But it plays well to the Mail and Express who seem to demand cruelty, and the more cruelty is normaised, the more extreme cruelty is needed.

See where this is going yet?