While Tory MPs fought a 5-sided contest over Sunak's Rwanda Bill, rightly called "ridiculous nonsense" by everyone else, they certainly provided a news-occupying distraction from the real world. Not to mention a predictable display of racism, hatred of all foreigners and little Englander, anti-social prejudice.

    There's little doubt that it's this mentality which contributed to the death by suicide of a refugee recently berthed on the Bibby Stockholm barge.

    Nick Fletcher, MP for Don Valley - the first ever Tory to take this historical Labour "Red Wall" seat in 2019 and likely to lose it soon - explained his support for the bizarre Kigali deportation scheme on the BBC's Politics Live on Monday. He said "the country is full" and went on to blame immigrants for the crisis in the NHS: never mind that without them, there'd be no NHS! In fact he's a member of 2 of the 5 main Tory factions - the Northern Research(?!) Group (of Blue Red Wall'ers) and one improbably called "Common Sense" - which threatened to unseat Sunak for not going far enough in this latest version of the Bill.

    However it's in the Gaza Strip where the politicians' turning of reality on its head - by portraying perpetrator as victim and defending the Israeli army's massacre of civilians - has real consequences and on a scale we've seldom seen before, at least not since the Iraq war.

    And just nearby, a conference addressing climate change (COP-28) but which failed 100% to do so, was, absurdly, but no doubt deliberately, hosted by Gulf State billionaires of the oil industry. Yes a lavish fanfare proceeding at the very same time that the Palestinians of Gaza, for whom these capitalist sultans had declared their support, continued to be bombed to death by the Israeli government's armed forces...

    As if this drastic emergency in Palestine-Israel shouldn't have taken precedence over their hot air about cutting hot air, which anyway, is never intended to change a thing. But for capitalists everywhere, profits come first - and as we see, not just before the lives of the poor, whether in Gaza or anywhere else, but before the life of planet earth itself...

    And of course that's the real choice: either a system based on exploitation and war and the planet's destruction in order to accumulate yet more profit, or one based on planned (international!), non-polluting production for the needs of all, in a world without borders and therefore, without wars and without refugees.