You know you have reached a shameful, abhorrent point as a society when your government announces plans to spend £6bn it can barely spare trying to deport people coming here looking for refuge. When I turned on the news this morning, that was the first thing I was greeted with. “The cost of detaining and deporting people arriving in the UK in small boats under planned new legislation could hit £6bn over the next two years, internal government projections say….The BBC understands the Home Office estimates it will have to spend between £3bn and £6bn on detention facilities, and ongoing accommodation and removals.” Are the Tories really so vapid, so eager to please the Mail and Express reading xenophobes, that they would waste so much money trying to detain and deport these poor people? Of course, I know it wouldn’t be cheap to welcome and house them here instead, but surely that would be a far more humane and civilised thing to do. And given that it would mean putting money into supporting people to live here in the UK, it would essentially be investing in our society, rather than wasting it on barbaric, inhumane schemes intended to appease bigots. I really am appalled by what the Tories are turning this country into.