Rwanda shambles corrodes democracy

WHAT a depressing but thoroughly predictable farce.

With the connivance of human rights lawyers and the activist Left, every single illegal migrant selected to be sent to rwanda this week for asylum processing has lodged a legal appeal.

As a result, it’s entirely possible no one will board the flight tomorrow. While their cases move glacially through the courts (at vast taxpayers’ expense, of course), the plane will sit on the runway, a humiliating symbol of Britain’s failure to control its borders.

Perhaps worse, this also represents an outrageous corrosion of democracy.

intended to stop migrants dicing with death by handing huge sums to smugglers for a place in a dangerous cross-Channel dinghy, the home secretary’s crackdown enacts the wishes of voters.

But in liberal metropolitan circles, fashionable self-righteousness counts more than the verdict at the ballot box.

Priti Patel’s noisy opponents rage against her supposed inhumanity. Yet they seem unmoved by how many migrants might drown at sea or end up as slaves paying off debts owed to rapacious traffickers.

Their only goal is to sabotage the policy by hook or by crook. in this, they are emboldened by the Prince of Wales, who apparently condemns the scheme as ‘appalling’.

Leave aside that rwanda is good enough for royalty (Charles is due to visit this month). Most of those agreeing with him have republican sympathies.

if he’s not very careful, those disagreeing with his provocative political interventions may also conclude Britain’s constitutional monarchy is no longer worth keeping.