Scroungers, lefty lawyers... the Tories duck scrutiny by inventing enemies | Nick Cohen

Abiding by judicial oversight is alien to a government that acts as if it's above the law

You cannot say anything coherent without generalising, and so, and to generalise, the British will lose their rights to challenge an over-mighty and underwhelming state because they hate foreigners more than they love political accountability.

The Johnson administration knows that as long as it portrays asylum seekers as cheats arriving in the UK illegally and their solicitors as activist lefty lawyers", tricking the trusting public into allowing scrounging aliens to remain on our island, it can end scrutiny of its abuses of power.