1/ Astute analysis by the @NewStatesman's @harrytlambert (doesn't mean he's on our side), which identifies that the #Rwanda flight as a key play in the Tory culture war, designed to draw election battle lines. There is an obvious strategy for dealing this: take it head on. 
2/ If many UK citizens don't like the reality that people are being smuggled to our shores, an astute left wing politician would simply draw their eyes to the root cause: western wars started to expand markets for goods, services and weaponry to be traded in the US dollar.
3/ A good portion of the 70million refugees in the world today (many of whom are internally displaced) have been forced to leave by the destruction of their nations by the Anglo Saxon Empire: Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and more. This is not a conversation the Tories want.
4/ Nor is it a conversation @Keir_Starmer, a knight of the Empire, wants to have because he supports the war economy. So instead Labour will fudge the issue, criticising it on grounds of cost while ignoring the heart of the matter, as the Tories point how shifty & weak they look
5/5 Turning the conversation Britain's aggressively war mongering role in the world would shut the debate down dead & the Tories would have to think of a new electoral dividing line. #Labour won't do this, so the Tories will be able to shape the debate as they please
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