Where do I start ...?

[shewhomust]

You think there's nothing this government can do to surprise you, and then Lee Anderson suggests that if the Rwanda plan fails, we could send refugees to Orkney.

I can imagine many worse fates than being sent to Orkney: and I have found myself in conversation with islanders who were hungry for immigration (preferably with children, to maintain the local school): Mr Anderson seems to view it as a punitive measure. He proposes commandeering an uninhabited island. And of course, he refers to "the Orkneys".

For the record, this is not any random Conservative MP. this is the Deputy Chairman of the party.

Comments

[cmcmck]

What a bloody fool!

[anef]

These people have a vested interest in being completely unable to imagine what life might be like for other people.

[cmcmck]

And this you tell to a trans woman such as my goodself!

[anef]

It was more that I had just realised it for myself. Not just that they can't imagine, but that they actively don't want to.

[shewhomust]

Well, we knew that already!

[shewhomust]

True. But no vested interest in being re-elected, it seems ...