Passenger on Nostr: I think this is something people often avert their eyes from: there's a constituency ...

I think this is something people often avert their eyes from: there's a constituency in the UK who actively want cruelty, and things like the Rwanda scheme are better understood as playing to that constituency than attempting to carry out an actually workable policy.

Years ago, Saul Alinsky argued that the fatal flaw of representative democracy is that it requires a party to prioritise the need to get elected and deemphasise the things that they wanted to do once they got elected. Everything becomes a perpetual campaign trail, and leaders get chosen for their ability to posture and market themselves. The history of the UK since the referendum would seem to prove Alinsky right.