Kigali Counsel

Patriots still itching for that first Rwanda flight will rejoice that His Majesty's Government is once more preparing to sock it to those enemies of the people in the supreme court. The latest wheeze is apparently to circumvent the court's ruling against the lawfulness of the Rwanda transportation scheme by sending lawyers to Rwanda. There is a certain logic to this: if one can make a room more stupid by putting Iain Duncan Smith inside it, and a ministry more crooked by putting Grant Shapps at the head of it, why shouldn't it be possible to make something more legal by throwing a few lawyers at it? Alas, there remains some doubt whether the lawyers will agree to be thrown: the president of the Law Society has already blamed the asylum and immigration backlog on silly old capacity, while a solicitor noted that the defects in Rwanda's wog disposal machinery are serious and systematic, and therefore presumably too British for legal representatives of the master race to be able to make much difference.