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https://lnkd.in/eX-Nbffx https://lnkd.in/ea79pKUU Show Criminal Colonial Capitalism UK CA Rishi Sunak has revealed the truth of the asylum backlog, yet pushes on with his theatre of cruelty. Sneaked away in the Prime Minister’s plan was an interesting little aside, which he did not seem too keen on mentioning.

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'Four people died in the ice-cold waters of the Channel last night. Another tragedy. Another senseless loss of life to add to the grim register of our indifference. The Home Secretary and the Prime Minister expressed their sorrow, in the now-traditional manner. But if they truly wanted to fix this problem they would stop pretending simple solutions will work.

There is only one answer to the asylum issue. For all the anger and recriminations and abysmal degenerate rhetoric from ministers, it all comes down to a single element: the efficiency with which we process claims. That’s the secret truth of the debate, which the anti-refugee lobby is unwilling to admit.

Nothing is ever going to stop people coming to the UK. Wars, poverty and oppression exist around the world. People will flee them. Some of them will come here. The only pertinent question is how quickly and humanely you process those applications – deciding who can stay and who cannot.

Of course, the Government denies this is the issue. It insists that if we turn ourselves into monsters – if we can rob ourselves of any remaining vestiges of human decency and compassion – people will be so horrified that they will stay away.

It’s the broad message Rishi Sunak was trying to get out yesterday in his announcement on asylum, with interviews or comment pieces in all the main reactionary news outlets: The Sun, Daily Mail, The Telegraph. Albanians would be default rejected. The threshold for slavery would be raised. New legislation would bar those who enter the UK illegally. The Rwanda policy would be restarted and then expanded to other countries.

But sneaked away in Sunak’s asylum plan was an interesting little aside, which he did not seem too keen on mentioning.

He wants to increase the number of staff who make asylum decisions and attach caseworkers to specific nationalities. Alongside streamlined rejections for Albanians, there would be streamlined processes for Syria, Afghanistan and Iran, the vast majority of which are likely to be successful. This would work to clear the asylum backlog.

Why is this in there? Presumably because Sunak knows the truth. He has seen the information, much of it compiled by his own government or official inspectors. The reason we are struggling with asylum at the moment is not primarily to do with lots of people coming to Britain. It’s because our asylum processing system has stopped working.'

'There is no effective hard-man response to the asylum question. The theatre of cruelty accomplishes nothing, except to worsen the problem which it is ostensibly supposed to address. The only solution is practical: the proper funding, staffing, management and training of an effective and humane asylum application process, in which we treat people decently and handle their claims quickly. But that is the truth of the asylum debate which dare not speak its name.' Ian Dunt 14 December 2022