Politics and death

Just before the second reading of Sunak's Rwanda Bill yesterda, it was announced that a migrant had died aboard the prison barge, Bibi Stoockholm.

I say this to remind readers that behind this cruel plan are real people and real lives, people who are among the most opressed on Earth, who this Government decided to lock up rather than process their claims for asylum.

Sever tradtional Conservatives, the so called on Country ones, spoke out against hte bill and how it was an affront.

But not one Conservative MP voted against it.

Not one.

It now goes to committee and then the Lords and third readings, and so on.

Let us not forget, if passed, itallows the UK Government to set aside international law and treaty obligations to send the most desperate to Rwanda where they could be returned to their home country and opressed and maybe killed.

Rwanda has done it before, which is why the Supreme Court ruled against it.

In the Bill, in the second clause, it states that all UK official must think of Rwanda as a "safe" country.

Even if it isn't.

It it were a safe country, for migrants, then there would be no need for that clause.

I will write another time on how the Conservative Party is ungovernable now, and maybe all ruling parties will become so. I for one hope for times when we had a Government that made decisions based on facts and risk analysis, rather than as a result of bleak political dogma.

As Tony Benn once said, how a Government treat immigrants is how they would treat everyone f they could. The Human Rights Act and the ECHR is there to protect us, citizens, from our own Governments, which is why the headbangers want to repeal one and withdraw from the other.