Refoul Me Twice?

The new treaty will oblige Britain to take refugees from Rwanda, and it will give Rwanda the last word as to which of our asylum seekers it wished to take. We shall be paying Rwanda for this, all the while hoping that no one would ask how it could be both a demi-paradise and so horrible that no one would wish to be sent there. We have just spent £100,000 to fly James Cleverly there and back on a private jet that seats 200, the number that Rwanda has agreed to take. Although believe in even that when you see it. Meanwhile, on at least two continents, someone is going to carry on being seriously paid.

And look what we are offered instead. Does anyone doubt that the Labour Party's ruling faction is on this teat as it is on all the others, from HS2, to the Bibby Stockholm, to the profiteering and polluting water companies? As the Covid-19 Inquiry proceeds, the Official Opposition's silence is deafening when it could be raising Cain about Michelle Mone and all the rest of the fraud arising out of PPE, track and trace, and so on. If they are not in it up to their necks, then they are now financially dependent on people who are.

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.