"Our compassion may be miniscule, but our capacity to help ourselves to taxation revenue to palm off on crony contracts to our mates is a constant thrill!"
Kindness is political. The choice to be kind, considerate and compassionate in the deliberation, design and implementation of policy is a political choice, The choice to be callous, indifferent or cruel is also a political choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees#Rights_and_responsibilities_of_parties
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/asylum-in-the-uk.html - a brief report on Asylum in the United Kingdom.
The thread behind this latest scam is that this is yet another way to pass taxpayer cash to corporate cronies, signing opaque contracts with entities that are responsible for terrible provision of what ever 'service' is being provided,(Test & Trace, PPE is one current example of this kind of behaviour) effectively farming vulnerable people for profits, without no evidence that this action will have the effect of improving their lives, securing their safety and welfare.
In effect, this Government are taking over the business of trafficking vulnerable people. Competition in the 'free market'. And as it happens, this plan will not stop the illegal trafficking from France across the English Channel.
Trafficking preys upon vulnerable people.
As it happens the UK's international ambassador for human rights Rita French in July 2021 expressed “regret” that Rwanda was not conducting “transparent, credible and independent investigations into allegations of human rights violations including deaths in custody and torture”. The claim that Rwanda is a safe place to send vulnerable people is baseless.
This misGovernment knows this.
The Kafkaesque difficulty of Ukrainian Refugees seeking refuge in Britain.
Listening to the radio this morning, I heard one caller tell of a story of a heavily pregnant Ukrainian mother who was trying to make her way to the UK. She was told when applying for her visa to enter the UK from Poland, a slow and unfriendly process (hostile environment, a coalition policy) where she was now a refugee, was told that if her baby was born before she entered the UK, the baby would need his or her own visa as well, or not be allowed to enter the UK.
This pregnant mother-to-be decided the lack of compassion - the political choice - of the English Government was a worse option than returning home to a war torn country in the midst of a horrific, disgusting war which appears to be escalating.
This is just one story, among many, many thousands of heart-wrenching and traumatic cases. UK is the only country demanding visas for Ukrainian Refugees as a condition of entry. Every other state is allowing entry, with visa application to be made once the refugees are safe.
Boris Johnson spoke to day, and this is what he said : “We cannot sustain a parallel illegal system. Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not."
When it comes to 'sustaining a parallel illegal system', it is the precisely the deliberate closure of previously available safe and official routes for Asylum Seekers and Refugees to reach the UK that created the fertile ground for the 'parallel illegal system'.
When it comes to helping people the blatant corruption of the Governments Crony Contracts for PPE, Test and Trace, and other policy choices that minted thousands on new millionaires shows exactly where this Governments priorities really lie.
A Government of Wealth Extraction, sponsored by Oligarchs, imposing policy generated in think tanks funded by Oligarchs, cannot represent the democratic electorate of England.
They do not represent the people of England, the vast majority of whom are decent, kind law abiding persons, who do, as it happens, appear to host an almost infinite compassion if one looks ate the totality of the community voluntary sector and support for charities helping the most vulnerable people of our communities.
Infinite Compassion?
Fight for the Right to Party - a Satire Song about Johnson
This new 'policy' regarding Refugees, Asylum Seekers and others choosing the desperate and dangerous path towards the UK and safety, seeking freedom from brutality, oppression and war, via small dinghies slowly chugging across the English Channel is a disgusting dog whistle policy designed to take attention away from the immediate issue of the Tory Death Parties.
This issue and any, many others are all linked together in that they form part of a totality of deliberate, calculated, misGovernment that rejects the path of avoiding avoidable harms.
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