Britain’s Rwanda deportation policy is the result of a jamboree of Brexit Union Jack flag-shagging

On every level imaginable, the UK government’s attempt to solve the challenge posed by thousands of asylum seekers making their way across the English Channel from Northern France by deporting them to Rwanda in East Africa is barbaric and unworkable.

Yet if not for the last minute legal intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the first flight, scheduled to depart on Tuesday 14 June, would have taken place with just a handful of unfortunate human beings to a fate unknown. That this flight is thought to have cost £500,000 alone, and that the UK government has already paid the government of Paul Kagame in Rwanda £120 million to take UK asylum seekers, leaves home secretary Priti Patel’s credibility in tatters, along with her policy.

Of course, there won’t be any resignations taking place anytime soon — not when we have ourselves in Britain a lawless and roguish government that has already proven itself impervious to such inconviences as honour and integrity. What there will be is a doubling down on the policy by Patel — a home secretary so vicious and cruel you get the idea that she enjoys baseball-batting stray cats in her spare time.