Rishi Sunak is, perhaps necessarily, a gambler in the great casino of politics. In his desperate effort to get British voters to give him a chance, he has gone to the ballo in maschera disguised as a moderate and a radical, a technocrat and a rebel, a Trumpist and a lifelong traditional conservative. He has bet on slot machines, double pairs of aces and queens, blackjack and even the football league results. And until now he has always lost (he is twenty points behind in the polls, with an electoral debacle forecast on the rise).
Like an inveterate gambler who doesn't know when to take the losses and go home with his head down, the British Prime Minister has gone to the roulette table and placed all his remaining chips (a handful) not on the red or the black , but in a somewhat esoteric box called “sending asylum seekers to Rwanda”, in the hope – perhaps somewhat illusory – that this will prevent the change of cycle that is coming, and stop the tendency of voters to hand over to the Labor Party.
After a legislative process that has lasted a total of two years, with the bill passing like a ping-pong ball from the House of Commons (where the Tory majority supported it) to the Lords (who were not clear about ), is finally ready to receive the signature of King Charles III. Play the game, gentlemen! said the dealer. The ball has started to roll and it will soon be seen if Sunak wins or is robbed.
Downing Street assures that the first batch of refugees will be put on a plane to Kigali at the end of June or beginning of July, and Sunak's hope is that, when things are seen to be serious, Britain will no longer be a destination. coveted by immigrants (it is not the same to settle in Manchester as in Rwanda), the mafias that dominate the scene will not offer boat trips across the English Channel like those who sell holidays in Benidorm, and the average voter will say: “Look where, in the end, the conservatives have managed to stop the arrival of illegals, while, if Labor wins, they will invade us again.”
It seems a bit like the milkmaid's story, because the first plane has not yet sold any tickets (the cost is astronomical, two million euros for the first three hundred passengers), although the Government says that it has already preselected the candidates, who It has expanded detention centers and hired more officials and judges to speed up deportations (some 50,000 asylum applications are stuck in bureaucracy and pending resolution). And more importantly, it remains to be seen whether or not the demands that human rights groups will undoubtedly present to stop forced transfers to the depths of East Africa come to fruition.
The unlucky ones who win the lottery of a trip to Kigali will have eight days to appeal to the Ministry of the Interior, which in turn must respond within a week. If it is negative, they can go to a higher court, which will rule within three weeks. His last resort will be Strasbourg, but Sunak assures that he will ignore his orders if necessary and repudiate European legislation on human rights "to defend the national sovereignty that has been so hard won with Brexit", even if this places the United Kingdom at the height of Belarus.
The premise of the legislation is somewhat surreal, that Rwanda must be treated as a “safe destination” for immigrants because the Government claims that it is, despite the Supreme Court having said otherwise. Sunak is not just a gambler, but like those gamblers who owe money to the mafia, and his creditor threatens to cut off their finger (or head) if he doesn't pay it back with interest. And he certainly does not believe, like Schopenhauer, that compassion is the basis of morality. Compassion, zero.
