Rwanda policy appeals to the little-Englanders

PARTYGATE is not showing any signs of going away, and nobody likes to think that a lawbreaker is running the country.

With this in mind, and nobody paying any serious attention to puerile distractions such as replacing the decimal system with imperial units, the increasingly desperate loony right has had to throw at us something so gut-wrenchingly awful that everybody’s attention is drawn towards it – sending asylum seekers to Rwanda – a country best known for genocide and its atrocious human rights violations.

People have had to make the appalling decision between staying in their home country and possibly getting persecuted or tortured, or going to another country and seeking asylum there for a while; or even permanently if things at home don’t get any better.

The obvious and most humane solution to this is to give people refugee status at a British embassy in their own or a neighbouring country, and then have them flown over to the UK where the good people of our land happily take them in, as is demonstrated repeatedly – those from Ukraine being the latest example.

In addition, there are economic migrants that originate from countries that we have pillaged with many years of colonial rule, or countries that have become involved in wars that they didn’t want where we have supplied them with expensive arms. These should also be given visas to come and work in our country via local embassies – especially now that we aren’t attracting enough people from Europe for some reason.

However, Priti seems to be oblivious to this organised, state approach to solving this problem at source, and instead prefers the spirit of free enterprise – the only available manifestation of this being people traffickers. By aiding and abetting the traffickers in this way, the asylum seekers and economic migrants travel across the continents and end up in boats on the Channel where dozens of them drown as Priti pulls up the ladder behind her.

The possibility of drowning has never put them off, so being sent to Rwanda will be no deterrent either.

Labelling them all as ‘illegal immigrants’ is simply an attempt to make barely-disguised bigotry sound justified whilst securing electoral support from the littleEnglanders that she hopes will vote for her party again at the next election.

Paul Grosse, Sinfin