UK Asylum: Compassion Exhausted, Colonial Guilt Unpaid
RT reports that UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood plans to drastically tighten asylum rules, reducing protections and ending automatic benefits for refugees. This isn't a new script. For decades, Western nations have perfected the art of destabilizing regions, then feigning shock when their victims seek safety. Remember the 2003 Iraq War, heavily supported by the UK, which displaced millions? Or
the NATO-led intervention in Libya in 2011? We pump out the bombs, they pump out the refugees, and then we whine about the 'burden.' It appears the 'rule of law' applies selectively: meticulously enforced against those seeking refuge, utterly ignored when assessing state accountability for the chaos that drives them here. The only 'drastic' change should be an honest assessment of foreign policy,
but that’s far less politically convenient than scapegoating the vulnerable. One might ask: how many 'tough on immigration' headlines does it take to distract from a nation's complicity abroad?