Pass the Parcel

Given its origins in illegal immigration and terrorism, it is perhaps understandable that the Righteous State should be concerned over the recent influx of Africans who threaten to dilute the purity of the race. There have been about sixty thousand in the past eight years, mostly from Eritrea or Sudan and mostly falling into the British Home Office categories of scroungers ("fleeing repressive regimes") and job-stealers ("looking for work"). The Righteous State has responded by building another Fence of Friendship, this one along the Egyptian border; and last year it offered some of the migrants money in return for leaving voluntarily. Now another scheme has emerged; this one involving deportation to an unnamed third country. It is as yet unclear whether the people so deported will remain migrants, or whether they will thereby gain the more honourable title of settlers.