Yes this is the UK copying Australia, to the letter. Same language, ‘illegal’ arrivals, evil people…

Yes this is the UK copying Australia, to the letter. Same language, ‘illegal’ arrivals, evil people smugglers. And all the same ultimately ineffective criticism, about it being immoral etc. But this is nothing much to do with refugees at all. /1 #Rwanda https://t.co/DYNwTehtG0

As the Australian conservatives discovered, it’s a way to weaponise an actual problem, largely of their making, for almost endless political gain. The ‘Economy’ they substitute for society, its main methodology, is to strip people and things of their homes. To turn the world…/2

…into a ‘globalised marketplace’. To ruthlessly strip away anything that prevents the free flow of goods and people. They love roads, ships, planes, they love movement, to carry people and goods to and from different businesses. This displaces humans, animals and landscapes. /3

As Bruno Latour says, the best definition for the ‘Economy’ is any place that isn’t ‘home’. And for the modern conservative, the whole world is an Economy. Meaning increasingly, nobody has a home, except the conservatives. The rest of us are work units, cheap labor exported…/4

…and imported in ways barely distinguishable from the old slave trade. Look at how modern economies collapsed without their regular supply of cheap imported labour. We haven’t really moved on very much from those old slave days, some of the technology is newer, but…/5

…the underlying mechanism is pretty much as it always ways. The privileged strip-mine poorer nations (and their own) of resources, decimating landscapes (homes to other living things), while ferrying the labour to do this from poorer to richer nations, to save paying wages. /6

Boats of poor and displaced people cut out the middleman of parasitic ‘labour hire’ firms, who gorge on this modern slave trade. And at the same time, the constantly screwed workers inside rich nations themselves, who feel their own displacement too in their stagnant wages,…/7

…completely unaffordable housing and insecure jobs, can be easily made to focus their anger on these boat people, whom the conservatives portray as coming to steal their jobs. Which they actually are, but the people organising that are the conservatives themselves, and their…/8

…labour hire mates, who ferry these cheap work units to the businesses owned by friends of the conservatives and the conservatives themselves. It’s genius politics, create the problem, then weaponise it as somebody else’s doing, to deflect attention from the fact…/9

…it’s you doing it. The LNP here in Australia has used this same ‘illegal arrivals’ shtick for about 20 years now, winning election after election, vacuuming up the disaffected workers at home, who historically voted for working class parties. Their Economy screws workers,…/10

…and their illegal arrivals narrative then targets the anger this causes, and shifts it to the modern slaves themselves, and the people smugglers who are taking the substantial wealth out of the mouths of labour hire companies. It’s like a political perpetual motion machine. /11

The Tories are dribbling down both sides of their mouths, desperate to get one of these perpetual motion vote winners for themselves. Those opposing it will target all the wrong things - morality, decency etc. The conservatives already factored that into their machine. /12

It’s the evil people smugglers and queue-jumpers that are immoral. Etc. I can promise UK people of sound mind that trying to stop this by appealing to basic decency and humanity WILL NOT WORK. You have to target the above, the perpetual motion vote winning machine. /end