I've been really thinking deeply about the current situation against the Tory rhetoric.
Problem I feel is that what they are doing in some cases and highlighting isn't things we should be ignoring or not be doing.
It's the language around it that causes people to react. I think it's because they've failed so far and are going on the attack as a form of defence.
Regards the floating hotel. If it was fire safe it really isn't different to housing people in hotels. If they are free to come and go and the food is decent and it's a cheaper alternative I don't have an issue with it personally.
With regards the comments about coming and going within parameters. Again I don't think the concept is terrible - we really don't want the, absconding and being used as slaves or living on the streets and worse still dying there. We do need to make sure we are monitoring movement. But their language is inflammatory rather than a decent explanation of what they mean. And I can see why they need to do it after losing hundreds of refugee children - if they lost refugee adults people would blame them too.
So what I'm saying is they aren't addressing improving things for asylum seekers they are using them for propaganda but they could provide them safe housing on a floating ship that's safe because it's the human thing to do iyswim?
The Rwanda plan - erm NO. Absolutely that ain't something they should be considering or doing. It's not even a plan it's a swap of 200 migrants/asylum seekers for Rwandans for a cost of £140m. It's not even viable numbers wise when the Bobby Stockholm itself is set to house 500.
As for the lawyers coaching them to lie. Again they are right this does need to stop. We do need to have safe routes and we do need to provide asylum for those genuine seeking it. But we also want improvements to our justice system and lawyers encouraging people to lie is unacceptable. It's good they were stuck off. But all this life sentence stuff is absolute bollocks and again just far right rhetoric rather than addressing the underlying issue.
I just wish they'd change their mindset from Stop the boats to something like "provide safe routes", "improve our asylum system".
Anything that does actually stop those people risking their and their families life at sea, does stop the criminal gangs making money from desperate people.
I really want to ask the, when they keep going on about "passing through safe countries" that if war broke out in Western Europe they'd be happy to accept all the French, Belgium, Spanish and Portuguese who would head this way and stop here as the first safe country they got to?!
It's all such a mess and we have such an extreme reaction to it on sauce far sides of the argument that the real need that needs meeting is being missed and when some of the simple things being done to house people are being fought against which causes more rhetoric rather than simple explanations.
Every interview I listen to seems to manage to show horn the words
Lefty lawyers
Putins illegal war on Ukraine
illegal i migrants
First safe country
On the side of British people
And something scathing about Starmer who apparently wants ......
I'm so disenfranchised right now with the country due to the constant propaganda and DO NOT feel like this government is on the side of anyone other than their donors.