I am still not impressed with May's attempt to endanger the lives of refugees, on the grounds of expediency, no matter how it is presented as logical by the Gutter press.
The only way tories know how to impose their warped dogma on others is by creating fear in the population through the creation of a bogey-man. Whether that be the Icelandic fishing fleet over fishing rights, the Argentinian government over the Falklands, The Egyptians over Suez, or the Spanish over Gibraltar, successive tory governments have used this same tactic to justify their use of military power against weaker nations to justify their financial or strategic interests around the world.
Closer to home, the Westminster elite has used the same bullying manner against the Irish, the Scots, the trade unionists and more recently, the junior doctors. When they cannot get their way by discussion and negotiation, they always resort to force or the threat of force - think back to the miners or even further back to Churchill sending tanks into Glasgow. There are many other instances of tory abuses of the rights of the poor in history such as the Littleport riots, the Luddites and further afield again, India, Kenya and even America.
As a supposedly civilised, first world nation, our record on human rights is amongst the worst in recorded history; both in the treatment of our own people under oligarchic regimes and in our disregard for the rights of people in other lands.
Today, it is patently clear that the tory party has not changed one bit and the bogey-man is now the mythical 'immigrant terrorist' therefore all refugees from places Britain has helped destroy through military might and/or economic sanctions must be regarded as potential terrorists. Of course, the terrorist attacks on the British mainland have been the work of home-grown evil-minded people but that is casually disregarded in favour of a foreign bogey-man.
It might be worth remembering that we lost the 'cod wars'; we had a phyrric victory against the Argentinians; we lost to the Irish; we didn't do too well in the Suez dispute, nor did we achieve anything worthwhile against the Mau-Mau in Kenya.
We also came second in America and we didn't have the balls to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong, even though the vast majority of its people declared a desire to remain under British rule. Now, because the tories can't get their own way in the EU, we threaten to walk out and do our own trade deals with whichever countries we like.
Of course, when you control every form of media and are able to appeal easily to the simpletons and sickos of society you depend on to support your evil policies, it give you every right do whatever you like, particularly as whenever it all goes wrong you are never made to suffer any kind of punishment.
Tom