Our Proles Are Still Too Spoiled

An incident in Nigeria offers an inspiring preview of the future towards which the British political class is guiding its own human resources. The parallels between Britain and Nigeria are self-evident, of course: Nigeria is Africa's second-largest economy, while Britain is the World Cop's second-largest best chum; Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, while Britain's lax immigration policy has virtually emptied eastern Europe. Most importantly, in Nigeria oil wealth has enriched elites while failing to create employment, while in Britain efficiency savings have enriched elites while failing to create employment. The Nigerian government has launched a recruitment drive for its own immigration services, in which half a million people were invited to apply for less than five thousand jobs and several died in the stampede. The brilliant Iain Duncan Smith and his disciples must be oozing with envious admiration; self-evidently, it is only the laziness and lethargy of the natives which prevents Universal Jobmatch yielding similar results in Britain. Still, as more green crap is ditched and our climate moves ever closer to the tropical, we may yet hope that appropriate levels of corruption, malnutrition and other incentivisations will become ever more readily available.