Excessive Generosity

Today, of course, is Maundy Thursday, when the monarch traditionally makes a brief annual show of being concerned about poor people; and that plump purple relative of Mrs Battenberg's who serves as Britain's Head Boy has apparently marked the occasion by protesting his moral compass to the very same church that called in the City of London police to hose protesters for social justice off the steps of St Paul's. Meanwhile, despite Her Majesty's Government's eminently successful wog-bombing exercise in Libya, asylum seekers continue to show their ingratitude by drowning in ever-larger numbers. Thanks to the moral compass of Britain's Head Boy and his chums, the UK withdrew support for rescue operations last year, on the grounds that the prospect of being rescued provided an unintended "pull factor" similar to the attractions of the British benefits system and the luxury hotel at Yarl's Wood. In the first quarter of this year, the number of people who have died trying to get across the Mediterranean is already approaching the estimated totals from 2012 and 2013. As so often with poor and brown people, they just don't seem to appreciate the charity of their betters.