No sensible policies to be seen

I comment very little on current affairs these days, as the policies that Sunak and his Government are half-arsed trying to implement are not, by any measure, serious.

Take the Rwanda policy, this is to be revived and legislation passed so to bypass the ECHR and UK Human Rights Act, when the Supreme Court's judgement two weeks ago was based on the UK's obligations to other internation treaties and organisations, explicitly saying that the judgement did not have to cite the ECHR or the UK HRA.

So, this is policy as performance art, to appear strong, when the reality is they have run out of ideas.

The "crisis" in the Channel could be fixed in a few days and the backlog in asylum application tackled, but the Government would rather spend months and hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer's money on a fantasy policy that will not work.

And when it doesn't work it will be lawyers and the Judicery that will get the blame.

Yesterday, the Government updated its rules for those seeking to live and work here, doubling the salary needed to £38k per annum, meaning that 74% of the population will not be able to marry or live with a non-UK national in the UK, as they don't earn enough.

This was brought in to stop those working in the care and other sectors short of labour, from being able to bring their families over. How many will now come?

(addition) And this affects UK citizens who want to bring non-UK partners, husbands, wives, children into the country, and will be retrospective, so that families will chose to either live apart of the UK citizen move out of the UK. Unless you are rich enough, earn enough, so you as the UK earner is above the £38,700 limit, which rules out 74% of the population, so it is a restriction on relationships for all but the rich.

This is Government policy further eroding the rights of UK citizens, but also damaging the UK economy and areas like the NHS and the care industry to appear hard on immigration.

These are policies with series consequences, but not serious in tackling the issues intended, or creating further, much worse, consequences.

Even if the policy was serious and would address the issues intended, there is little evidence that the current Cabinet have the required skills to actually make it work.