Rishi Sunak has won a Commons vote on his controversial policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda – but the crucial element to notice is not the way he’s crowing about it; instead it is the response of others.

Here’s an example. Note that it doesn’t help Sunak’s cause that he lies about what his Rwanda Bill is supposed to do:

Here’s a fairly accurate summary of what actually happened:

And here’s one with a little more depth, courtesy of the ever-reliable Peter Stefanovic:

Would you like to know what happened in the debate?

Let’s start with this:

Here’s what I suspect was the more prevalent Tory behaviour – apparent racism from one Nick Fletcher, representing the Don Valley:

According to this drone, failures in local council services and the NHS are entirely due to illegal immigration. In fact, services are falling apart because his party has withdrawn funding. This is scapegoating of the meanest kind.

In contrast, Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy provided an excellent analysis – only to have it undermined by objections to a single word that some honourable members found distasteful:

The entire Bill is distasteful but they objected to that one word in a dissenting speech. If you are in the UK, it tells you everything you need to know about your government.

Of course the Bill still has a way to go yet, before it becomes law. The House of Lords will not debate it until the New Year – and some are salivating in anticipation:

Finally, the commentariat are having a field day:

This Writer’s opinion is that, once passed, this law will become a millstone around Rishi Sunak’s neck. Even if he succeeds in sending people to Rwanda, they won’t be enough to placate the racist anti-immigration crowd in his own party, and it won’t deter more people from crossing the Channel.

It will simply show that he was lying about the influence of foreign courts on what’s happening in the UK.

He would, indeed, be better-off calling a general election and putting himself out of our misery.

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