Other Duties

The Foreign Office clearly regards the abuse of boys by men as hilarious, as does the rest of the Kill The Pope Campaign. Like them, the Foreign Office really objects to the Catholic Church for other reasons, precisely including Her principled opposition to sexual activity between men and teenage boys. This is because the Foreign Office shares the weird educational background and preferences of the rest of the Kill The Pope Campaign. In that, it is not alone.

There are many ways in which the Tories have long, or even always, been actively hostile to the views and values of those on whose votes they depend. Support for the anti-national, anti-farming, anti-manufacturing, anti-shopkeeping, anti-local, anti-family “free” market is one. Their actual record in office on the EU and on Northern Ireland is another. And there are plenty more.

But there is none more flagrant or more fatal than the fact that they are not just largely products (which they cannot help), but also almost invariably users and stalwart defenders, of pretty much the most anti-family institutions imaginable, founded on the premise that children should be brought up with as little parental contact as possible except when it comes to paying the bills, and organised towards the acting out of adolescence in single-sex residential environments.