From "stop the boats" to histerical manhunt - the politicians are grasping at straws
So, after the hysterical "manhunt" for Hadush Kebatu, who Justice Secretary Lammy referred to as a "dangerous criminal at large", and Home Secretary Mahmood called a "vile sex offender", he was easily found... and they've already deported him.
When his mistaken release was reported, the hype was such that it could only have encouraged a lynch mob. And in fact such a mob duly reappeared outside at the Bell Hotel in Epping, right on cue.
Yet Hadush was hardly the danger to public safety that the Westminster lynch mob made out. After his release, he kept going back to the prison's reception to ask where he was meant to go...
But OTT government/media-generated hype is now the order of the day, when it comes to the issue of "the boats" and foreign migrants. Who needs Farage or Robinson, when there's a Starmer, Mahmood or Lammy to promote xenophobia?
As if this was the public's main preoccupation! No doubt the government imagines that by joining a populist chorus which scapegoats easy targets like migrants, it'll draw attention away from the broken economic system, limping from one crisis to the next; from the broken NHS, the overpriced (privatised) energy "market", the (privatised) water companies which can't fix their pipes and the (privatised) postal service which has to be fined for not delivering letters on time...
Anything, but admit that the root cause of this universal failure is their "precious" economic system based on private profit, which they all - Labour, Tory, Reform, Green... etc., commit themselves to defend tooth and nail until... when? Doomsday? Yes, anything but admit that they cannot fix it!
Not one of the mainstream political parties has any sensible answers. What's more, a substantial number among the voting "public" knows this. The record abstention at every election says it all, in a context of Labour and Tory alternating in power for ~ 100 years!
Neither is it any surprise that a "new" party like Reform led by millionaire Farage, leads the polls today. Of course this pint-sized Trump tribute act, with his big mouth, would love to rule the Westminster roost - and bad luck to him! Not he, nor anyone else, will ever revive this decaying system.
Indeed, it's the historical task of the working class organised as a revolutionary force, to "fix" society - that is, eliminate the capitalist economy altogether, and along with it, the class system. In that future world, we'll all be migrants - because finally there'll be free movement anywhere and everywhere, for all.