A day once again dominated politically at least by the Rwanda bill. About six hours of debate votes, and a major vote to come in the government's third reading.
The third and final reading of the Rwanda Bill before it goes to the House of Lords. What does it really all mean?
Well, we saw about 60 Conservatives go against the government line yesterday.
They don't think the Rwanda Bill is tough enough. They don't think it's going to work. But would they actually have the courage?
Nigel Farage discusses the Rwanda Bill vote
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Would they actually have the guts to vote down this piece of legislation that they know simply isn't going to work?
Well, some will, but it would need about 30 of them for the government to lose.
And I suppose the whips will be applying pressure, using tricks like 'this is effectively a vote of confidence in Rishi Sunak, your Prime Minister'.
And 'you know you do want to get reselected, old boy, don't you, to stand at the next election'.
So I very much doubt Conservative members of parliament will have the guts to vote it down.
And indeed, it's worth pointing out it's not since 1977 that a government has lost a third reading debate.
But what annoys me about this is they put us through this for over 600 days, 600 days, hundreds of millions of pounds. Not a single person has gone to Rwanda.
Frankly, this is a charade. All we get are the divisions within the Conservative Party played out in front of us as some sort of psychodrama.
They've done it on this. They've done it on Boris's parties. They've done it on so many issues, preoccupied it seems, with themselves and not with delivering anything of any value for the country whatsoever. I think they're a pretty hopeless bunch.
And I also think whether the bill was to pass in its current form or even with some of the amendments of yesterday or the ones being voted on now, I'm not sure that any of it would stand legal challenge given our international obligations.
And I think that's what needs to be sorted out before we have any hope of dealing with this problem. They are just my opinions. I think the whole thing is a waste of time and a charade.
And isn't it funny? Even the government of Rwanda have now had enough, had enough of being trashed in the international press and are virtually saying, look, you know what, you want your money back, we'll give it to you.
