Our Tough Love Must Penetrate Yet Further

Michael Fallon, the Minister for Wog-Bombing, has laid out his strategy for dealing with his department's share of the Osbornomic miracle. Since the defence budget is going to be cut again, Fallon has suggested that whatever part of the overseas aid budget doesn't go towards kickbacks for private companies or propping up amenable butchers might be used for wog-bombing as well. After all, if the unintended pull factor of not drowning is to be properly counteracted, the beastly migrants in the Mediterranean need to be pushed back a good deal further than the Libyan coast; preferably into countries stable enough to turn them from beastly migrants into hard-working consumers of privatised water. Clearly Britain, which contributed so much to the present stability of Libya, has much to teach the world and its wogs in this regard; and self-evidently Fallon, the man who claimed that electing the Milibeing would be like putting Kim Philby in Downing Street, is just the chap to provide a rational and disinterested perspective.