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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
John Crace

Tories reach new levels of derangement as MPs debate Rwanda bill

Robert Jenrick
Something weird has happened to Honest Bob Jenrick – he has started to take himself incredibly seriously. Photograph: Parliament TV

Be thankful for small mercies. At least the Post Office and Fujitsu weren’t run by Conservative MPs. If they had been, then most of the post office operators would have been deported to Rwanda years back. Throw away the keys. Sayonara, motherfuckers. Fujitsu and the Post Office were merely serially incompetent and institutionally corrupt. The Tory party can trump this by adding totally deranged to its achievements.

Nothing illustrates the continuing meltdown of the Conservatives better than the Rwanda bill. The obsession with persisting with a scheme that you know is never going to work. That will send, at most, 200 unfortunate people to Africa. A scheme that ignores the findings of the supreme court that Rwanda is an unsafe country. That depends on bailing out of international treaties. That will put the UK on a par with Russia and Belarus. Happy days.

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