Family Values

When it comes to moral questions, there are very few matters on which the Conservative Party sees eye to eye with our fun-loving Scandinavian cousins; but Britain does share with Denmark a policy whereby refugee children are not entitled to apply for family members to join them. As always, the reasons are purely altruistic and protective: quite apart from causing unnecessary complications when the children grew old enough to be deported, granting such permission would split up families, encourage people-traffickers, endanger the white working class and cause yet more wogs. Many of the children, being calculating foreign sorts, have resorted to self-harm, sleeping problems and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress; yet campaigners are calling on the Government to reverse the policy and inflict perverse incentives on the poor mites as well.