Today I just want to reiterate what I wrote here a few days ago: the Tory party, as a group of privileged, arrogant, xenophobic people, are manifestly unfit to govern the united Kingdom. Later today the party’s leadership will try to get a policy approved which would allow them to deport people coming here seeking refuge to Rwanda. Instead of helping people in search of aid, these Tory scumbags would have us turn our collective back on them, all in order to placate the knuckle-dragging xenophobes most likely to vote Tory. They may try to dress their fixation with this up as a concern for stopping dangerous boat crossings or breaking up criminal gangs, but it is blatantly obvious to any thinking person that this boils down to a hatred of people the tories perceive as ‘other’ coming here. If the tories truly cared about the safety and welfare of these refugees, they would have invested the obscene amount of money that this scheme has already cost into creating bodies which could practically help them once the asylum seekers get here.

Suffice to say, I really hope the government does not win tonight’s vote. As many others are pointing out though, given the results of the last election, it would require a near impossible rebellion. Nonetheless I passionately believe that this is not who we are: as a country, we should not be lead or represented by a group of people who would turn their backs on refugees, and would abolish international human rights law if it got in their way in doing so. I find what the tories are doing utterly, utterly disgusting; as a group of people they have only my deepest contempt. As a nation we should be so much better than the xenophobic cess pit the Tories have dropped us into. They may have won the last election by a huge margin, and Labour may now need a swing bigger than the one Tony Blair achieved in 1997 to get back into power; but surely the last few years have made it obvious that the values the tories advocate are utterly alien to any modern, outward-looking, intelligent society.