Countless Lives

Forget any hope that Labour might make a commitment to end the transportation programme. Rwanda was never in the British Empire. But it is in the Blair Empire, the network of dodgy regimes and dodgy companies that have Tony Blair on their payrolls. And that is what matters to both parties. There is also an emerging Cameron Empire.

France bears a responsibility for those who are fleeing the never-ending aftermaths of the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Libya, but it bears none for those who are fleeing the never-ending aftermath of the disastrous war in Iraq. At the very least, Britain has as much responsibility for them as it has for anyone who was fleeing the war in Ukraine, a war in which Britain plays no part whatever.

As is also seen in aspects of the debate around Ukrainian refugees, who "look like us" and therefore run no risk of being sent to Rwanda, note the extreme hostility to single men. The impending census returns will confirm the inexorable demographic rise of men who had either never been married or who no longer were, and who either had no children or had been forbidden to see them by the Tory State in the persons of the only people who were still voting Labour.

The commercial and electoral implications of this confirmation will be enormous, and the fear of it has been evident ever since the merciless eradication of the Corbyn phenomenon in no small part because of its attractiveness to young men who neither saw deindustrialisation as a great achievement nor fancied being called up as cannon fodder, and who were voracious readers and thinkers while being no more enamoured of the education system than it was of them.

Imagine that a sizeable number of them had ever made it into the House of Commons, enough to question the waving through of any and everything in order to be home for babies' bath times, or the leaving of parliamentary seats effectively vacant for half a year or more while their MPs continued to draw full pay because they had lately given birth? Where would it all have ended? Where would it all end?