Helpful As Ever

Some of the collateral damage from the coalition's sole successful wog-bombing received a public funeral in Malta today, despite the risk that such publicity might constitute an unintended pull factor for further waves of migrants. There were wails from the African community which, as so often, seems incapable of taking a balanced view of the issue. The ceremony was attended by the president and prime minister of Malta, the Italian interior minister and the EU's migration commissioner. The liberators of Libya had more important things to do, although with typical generosity of spirit Britain's Head Boy proclaimed that Britain, as ever, would help to prevent further embarrassments provided "that people that we pick up are taken to the nearest safe country, most likely Italy, and do not have immediate recourse to claim asylum in the UK."