So this is Christmas, and what have you done?
…if you work for Westminster Council, as Jamie points out, you’re denying the homeless a bowl of hot soup.
If you work for the Home Office you’re busy splitting up families on Christmas eve. Evil never sleeps.
I say evil but it’s really just a case of someone enjoying their job a little too much. When bureaucratic efficiency is indistinguishable from malice, why bother hunting for the distinction?
Most of the poor sods forced to work today will prat about in the morning, have a few pints at lunchtime and then slope off early. No such genial seasonal piss-taking by the boys at the Home Office, oh no. Maybe they make a concession to the time of year by wearing Santa hats when they’re kicking in asylum seekers’ doors at dawn.
And all under the auspices of a Labour government. The next person to say to me that New Labour is still the best vehicle for progressive change in this country is liable to get a punch up the bracket. The oil of human kindness has leaked out of its sump and the engine has seized.
One hopes someone has bought Gordon Brown a new moral compass for Christmas because the one he’s got that he likes to brag about is clearly knackered.
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was today ordered to return a 15-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker to his UK foster carer after a judge condemned the way he was forced out of the country.
Mr Justice Collins criticised the “total lack of humanitarianism” of the way the authorities had launched an early morning raid to seize the boy, who later ended up on the streets when he was flown back to Austria.
Now that’s talent. It takes a proper pedigree bastard to dream this kind of stuff up. I suppose we should be grateful that these people are working for the Home Office and not freelancing. Otherwise they’d be holding the world to ransom with laser-satellites made from diamonds or bombarding us from orbit with poisons created from rare orchids. Or making suits out of dead prostitutes.
(Via Philip)
Posted on December 24th, 2007 at 9:24am under Evil of banality
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they’d be holding the world to ransom with laser-satellites made from diamonds or bombarding us from orbit with poisons created from rare orchids. Or making suits out of dead prostitutes.
I think you do them an injustice, since they probably have neither the literacy nor the healthily sadistic DVD-watching instinct to learn of such acts, nor the imagination to conceive of them independently.
And yet, half of the British public think its time for a change – time for a Tory government??? WTF?? This is clear evidence that we have collectively jumped the politics shark as a nation. Yeah, sure, lets vote Tory next time round; at least they don`t pretend to have a social conscience (at least not with the gritty sincerity that Labour used to be able to slather onto their propaganda). A Cameron government will be no different to a Brown one, just nastier and faster with more sleaze and more govt ministers sold to the highest bidder, some Greedcorp mindcontrol tyranny masquerading as a commercial company.
Yeah, go ahead, vote Tory – at least it`ll put us out of our misery finally and for good.
MP-In-Denial Alert!
“When it comes down to it people in this country when they come to vote are going to be thinking about economics, about who is going to make them better off, who will make sure they are still in a job and will make sure the schools and hospitals are good and at the moment there is only one answer to those questions and that is Labour.”
And that was from Maria Eagle, justice minister. Right, Maria, I get it – all that kerfuffle about invading Iraq, wrecking its infrastructure, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, displacing 4.5-5 million as internal and external refugees, that`s all just tittle-tattle, innit? Nothing that we should bother our silly little heads about. No, all we should be concerned about is schools and hospitals – and then only in the way YOU approve of. No complaints about PFI scams, no outrage over private companies overcharging the state, no anger about the managers of same companies getting bloated on bonuses and profits gouged out of the public coffers.
Ah, its all so clear to me, now that I`ve read the Word of Maria. We must be docile and grateful that we have a Labour government thats working like trojans every hour that God sends, just to make rich people richer. Now that`s what I call the Age of Change. Milady.
Well, I’m ready to change my name to Cromwell and raise an army. Who’s with me?
Did you know that feeding soup to the homeless actually encourages people to take to the streets?