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CRUEL TORY MIGRATION BILL WILL ERODE BASIC RIGHT TO SEEK ASYLUM



The impact the policy will have across the world can’t be ignored, says Oliver
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Rafael Behr is right to draw attention to both the unworkability and the
inhumanity of the proposed illegal migration bill (‘Stop the boats’ shows how
Britain is really being governed: by Tory campaign leaflet, 14 March). But it is
also important to look beyond domestic concerns. At a time when displacement
across borders due to war, climate breakdown and economic collapse are becoming
increasingly common, Britain risks joining a growing list of privileged
countries whose actions threaten to undermine the basic right to seek asylum
from persecution. Already, the US is turning away refugees at its southern
border, and the militarisation and criminalisation of asylum in the
Mediterranean is well entrenched.



Countries adjacent to crises are the primary hosts of most of the world’s
refugees. They are not blind to the hypocrisy of wealthy nations, which insist
that refugees be supported and protected “over there” while relying on hostile
and legally dubious solutions to prevent them coming “over here”. If the world’s
richest countries are prepared to undermine its norms, the international refugee
protection regime risks descending into a free-for-all, where each country will
act as it sees fit – denial of refugee status, detention, violent pushbacks and
forced repatriation – with the rights and needs of vulnerable people relegated
to an absolute last priority.

Ordinary people with the least to give are often the most generous when hosting
refugees in need. Rather than piling cruelty upon cruelty, governments should
seek to build on, support and encourage this generosity, regardless of where it
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• Rafael Behr’s statement could be rephrased as a question: why has Westminster
ceased to be a serious deliberative chamber, one where the great issues of the
day are debated in a serious manner? This “mother of parliaments” is much
diminished and debate seems to be conducted in simplistic terms that are common
in the tabloids. Simple headline-catching statements are applauded as the
epitome of parliamentary practice. If there is a principle that dominates
parliamentary practice, it is political expediency.



When Aneurin Bevan spoke against the folly of the Suez war, he knew that it
would probably cost his party votes, but he could not remain silent when the
government was committed to this immoral policy. Today, silence is the preferred
strategy: don’t alienate potential voters and risk losing the next election. Any
political nonsense is preferred to vote-losing truths.
Derrick Joad
Leeds

• Rafael Behr’s article refers to the MP Scott Benton citing the Tory mantra of
“lefty lawyers and celebrity do-gooders”. I am unable to determine why these
people are sneeringly considered by Tories to be beyond the pale. Lawyers,
whether they are of the right or left persuasion, are simply lawyers doing a
job. Do the Tories sneer about lefty dentists? I was brought up to believe that
doing good was a good thing, but Benton sneers at the concept. Has he thought
about this, or is it just mindless caterwauling?
Nigel Griffin
Taunton, Somerset

• Rafael Behr says the “stop the boats” policy is built to fail. After the
second reading in the Commons last week, built to sink seems more cruelly apt.
David Duell
Durham



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