Moral Exports

British values have well and truly become the opiate of the Heathen Chinee, who are undertaking a major social cleansing programme to get the plebs out of the suburbs. Unlike our own more advanced and humane planners, the Heathen Chinee do not regard gentrification as an end in itself, and the government is using urban overcrowding as the pretext; but already the results for the housing market have been salutary, so it should be only a matter of time before a local equivalent of the Rothermere Daily Stürmer complains that present measures don't go far enough and urges immediate and compulsory use of vagrancy deterrents such as spikes for the homeless and on-the-spot fines for the indigent. The whole business has caused Dr Yan Song, director of the University of North Carolina's programme on Chinese cities, to recommend full communism: "if there is overcrowding or a shortage of services, why don’t you expand public services? Provide more education, opportunities, healthcare, hospitals - that’s something the government could do, rather than putting effort into pushing away the migrant population." Doubtless the dead-eyed warden of HM Prison UK will be having a quiet word with the Trumpster about how to deal with mere experts who try to subvert great empires onto the road to serfdom.