From 1066 And All That. Yes, really.
Imagine that Diane Abbott had called the hostages "sausages". It would have been the main news for the rest of the week, and we would never have heard the end of it.
But Keir Starmer could have read out a telephone directory, these days by definition an out-of-date one, and the BBC would still have wet itself with joy. He pretty much did, and it is.
Caring about the children of Gaza is so 2019, darling. As is caring about the children of Britain. Or caring about the grandparents of either. There will be no sausages for the pensioners, who will not be able to afford to cook them.
Also today, Yvette Cooper promised to reduce the number of people trying to come to Britain. And let's face it, if anyone can, she can. Consider it, consider her, and think, "Balls to that."
I can remember speeches about 'rooting out benefit scroungers' at Tory conferences under Thatcher and I've been hearing them ever since. You'd have thought they would all been rooted out by now.
ReplyDeleteOn the Government's own figures:
DeleteBenefit fraud, £1.2 billion;
Benefits overpayment due to error, £1.4 billion;
Benefits unclaimed, £16 billion;
Tax avoided, evaded and uncollected, £30 billion.
All benefit claimants, even the extremely small number of fraudulent ones, buy their own clothes.