Corporate Penetration

G4S, that paragon of efficiency and corporate sensitivity, has been awarded a three-year contract to run two sexual assault referral centres in the West Midlands. Such centres have hitherto provided mere medical examinations and counselling for victims of rape and sexual assault; but we all have to move with the times, and from now on they will doubtless progress towards a more streamlined and fiscally modernised service profile. Given G4S' prior record and their employment of Lord Reid, who enjoys the enviable distinction of being a slightly cruder and stupider New Labour home secretary than either Charles Clarke or David Blunkett, it cannot be long before the company starts paying the wealthier local personalities to go out and commit sexual assaults in order that the relevant targets may be properly met. G4S' managing director for forensic and medical sales responded to the predictable outcry of feminazi frustration with the claim that the company had been working in the area since 2005 and had developed substantial expertise. Of course, G4S had quite a bit of experience and expertise in security work before the Olympics; and I am sure we all recall what came of that.