PRITI COME FLY WITH ME PATEL

Ms Patel is not happy with the criticism she is getting over the Rwandan program and claims that no critics have a solution for stopping illegal immigration across the channel, nor can they offer one. She is supported in her ‘solution’ by the Prime Minster and Ress-Mogg. If that is an endorsement to boast about, heaven help us.

 

They claim her solution is to deter people from attempting to cross the channel risking their lives and the best way of curbing that is to ship any fit young asylum seekers straight off to Rwanda. This is her way of getting at the people traffickers. She assumes that by telling the refugees they will be sent even further away, they will no longer use the services of the traffickers and this will put them out of business. At first instance it might deter them from getting in a boat altogether. It’s her version of deterrent.

 

The present government is big on deterrent. Most of their current legislation is to deter people from doing anything the present government does not like, and that they assume is best for the country, because most people in the country think as they do. I rather think not.

 

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in commemoration of Easter, pointed out, inter alia, that Ms Patel’s solution is clearly anti-Christian, immoral and inherently cruel towards refugees. A view that more closely reflects the attitude of the British public than she or the government realises. It may also be illegal in itself, an issue that the Prime Minister addresses by warnings of ‘left wing lawyers’ coming out of the woodwork, and ‘they offer no solution.’ Current government ministers appear to have little regard for the rule of law.

 

This solution to the problem of boats across the Channel, it is part of a big package. Part one: The British Navy and Border Force are meant to stop all small craft.  Part 2: The French authorities are meant to help stop them from leaving the French shore, and help find the traffickers.  Part 3: As it seems expensive and too difficult for the Navy and Border Forces to catch all boats, and as it seems equally too onerous to find and shut down the traffickers, Ms Patel is convinced that deterring the victims of the traffickers from getting into the boats in the first place, is the easiest method.

 

In addition, Ms Patel claims that the transfer to Rwanda will assist refugees in finding better prospects and make it easier to apply for asylum from abroad. So it is both a deterrent and a help.  It is a bit confusing in its aims and the reclassification of Rwanda as a safe haven for refugees is a new twist of government propaganda. Does that mean she expects people to make a rush for the boats in order reach out for her assistance in finding better prospects in Rwanda? Or is it a matter of being cruel to be kind?

 

The thoughtless incompetence of this Home Secretary is beyond comprehension. In the history of the world, ‘deterrent’ solutions to criminal activity have never worked. If they had, over the last 5000 years, there would no longer be any crime. Deterrent solutions to stupidity do not work either. Some people just do not learn. Ms Patel’s behaviour is an instance in point. So far as we know, she has twice avoided being taken before a tribunal, for her behaviour in the work place, by paying off the complainant with public funds. Her behaviour, so far as we are aware, has not changed one bit; yet she continues in her job. If ministerial codes and sanctions have no effect on her, why does she assume it will be any different for desperate refugees seeking to find a better life, a problem far more pressing and important than her being able to control her temper.

 

So her solution is no solution. Perhaps she should join the refugees in Rwanda and take an anger management course, until such time as she receives a certificate of compliance, which she can show on an application to return to the United Kingdom and a low level public service job of some kind. Wouldn’t that be nice?