Unity, Work, Patriotism

Outside the more literal-minded reaches of the Stupid Party's less intellectual wing, it is debatable what anyone really expected of the Rwanda transportation scheme. Initially dreamed up to bait the weedy liberals and give the sensible moderates something to triangulate about, the idea was eventually co-opted to take the place of Brexit in the patriotic consciousness: a scheme whose full-throated adoption could serve to prevent the defection of useful racists to the Farage Falange, while the fact that it could never work as advertised would provide an eternal magnet for righteous indignation against the enemies of the people. Since nobody cared how or whether all the rah-and-blah would actually be implemented as a policy, the previous administration's willingness to listen to Rwandans on the matter seems eminently explicable. In determining whether Rwanda was a safe country, the Ministry for Wog Disposal relied mainly on officials of the Rwandan government, thereby ensuring a positive attitude; and when Rwandans outside the government were interviewed, officials sat in to prevent any misunderstandings. Obviously, this sort of game-playing was a far more effective provocation than the tediously routine recourse of delegating a British Home Secretary to lie and bluster; so it would be unfair in the extreme to imagine that the previous administration relied on the Rwandan government purely because corruption, authoritarianism and poverty made them feel at home.