Inside the tiger
Riding tigers is very dangerous as we and the Tory government is now finding out. After, quite rightly, losing a long and completely predictable legal case the Tory party is well and truly inside the tiger.
Having once again promised the impossible, just like with Brexit, it is now stuck with promising more impossibilities and causing even more damage to the country.
So we can apparently just ignore the Supreme court and ship people to Rwanda and “wave them off with our union jack”, impossible.
Pass a law saying Rwanda is safe, ,which will have as much success as passing a law saying the earth is flat.
Or we can withdraw from and tear up every Human Rights treaty, convention and law the country has ever signed. Besides the repetitional damage this would cause and the green light it would give to every tin pot dictator and authoritarian regime in the world, it would also destroy the Good Friday Agreement, the Windsor Framework, any data, or law and order cooperation with the EU and quite possibly the TCA itself.
Just because the Tory party thought there were some votes in shipping desperate people to an African country with a dodgy regime.
But then they thought they could ride the tiger of xenophobic, racist, populist, right wing, hate filled bigotry. They thought they could pander to Nigel Farage and the ERG, the red trousered gammons in their local party branches and the Daily Mail.
Now they and we have the worst of both worlds a completely inefficient and appallingly badly run asylum system, and a government so desperate to pursue a mad policy it is willing to break both domestic and international law and create chaos.
All that rather than admit this was a stupid, unachievable, cruel and unnecessary attempt to exploit the most vulnerable for party political advantage.
The tiger has eaten the government and is demanding more, and quite shamelessly many members of this government are willing to offer it more. Not least because they are so stupid they think they can make it to No. 10 this way and then control the tiger.
It is too late for that.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media