Remittance comment controversy: A shameful misuse of our parliament

A large number of moderate MPs, especially young women, will not contest next month’s British election. Many say they cannot endure the aggression representatives face.

That nastiness is epitomised by home secretary Priti Patel’s proposal to “test the appetite to go further” with anti-Traveller legislation. Ms Patel wants police to confiscate the vehicles of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”. That gaslighting will play out well in Middle England — Middle Ireland too — but it is racist. Because Britain seems further along the road to a darker, uglier place than Ireland, Ms Patel’s supporters will cheer this Home Counties ethnic cleansing.