‘PM Sunak is ignoring the actual will of the folks by sticking to Rwanda plan’
Rishi Sunak requested this week: “Will they get on board and do the right thing?”
The Prime Minister was speaking in regards to the members of the House of Lords and flights to Rwanda – which takes on a extra sinister tone when you learn it once more. Is his newest scheme to relocate the Upper Chamber to Kigali?
Very ominous. One Labour Lord I spoke to mentioned: “I suppose the weather would be better but it would make attendance allowance a touch harder to claim.” Indeed. Alas, there aren’t any plans to relocate. Not the Lords, anyway.
Mr Sunak was talking after the newest unedifying spectacle within the extended loss of life throes of this floundering Government. Nothing encapsulated the charade greater than everybody’s favorite TV presenter/politician/man of precept, former Tory Party Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson.
Mr Anderson was so dedicated to opposing the invoice – which might see migrants flown to East Africa – that he stop his position over it. But then he simply abstained as an alternative when he noticed Labour MPs “giggling and laughing” at him as he went to vote.
Quite one thing, to be so principled that some schoolboy stuff places you off every thing you stand for. And fairly the indictment of our present politics. (Incidentally, after he resigned some colleagues from Nottingham went into Ashfield to take the temperature. “He’s just embarrassing,” mentioned one native. “If you go into any pub around here, it’s full of Lee Andersons.” Little tip: Avoid that pub.)
Anyways, regardless of the threats of revolt from the least rebellious group ever assembled, the invoice is on its solution to the Lords, who’re already in combating temper. No one is aware of if it’s going to make it by but it surely’s in for a bumpy trip. Turbulent, I suppose, if we’re speaking flights.
The PM’s plaintive press convention, urging friends to get a transfer on, hasn’t gone down effectively – described variously as “vacuous” and bizarre. Angela Smith, Labour’s chief within the Lords, mentioned it was “bizarre”, including: “I don’t think he has a clue how the Lords works. We will stick to our normal processes.”
Expect some extended needle. The Lords will attempt to debate it sensibly. But Mr Sunak has already framed any delay as holding up the “will of the people”. Very harmful phrase that, vox populi, as Boris Johnson would say. The will of the folks is a normal election.
Meantime, 1000’s of jobs are going at Tata Steel in Wales and the PM is, as of Friday morning, “not available to take a call on Tata”.
This is the day it was revealed the Home Office has employed a hangar and dummy aircraft to practise putting migrants on Rwanda flights. God is aware of the purpose, and even the price. What we will say is it’s not, by any stretch, the desire of the folks.
