The End Justifies the Meanness

Even among the beastly Euro-wogs, the realisation appears to be dawning at last that Brexit really does mean Brexit. The standard definition - all the privileges of membership and none of the obligations - is of course also the Whitehall definition of membership, as a report into Her Majesty's Government's abuse of the Schengen police database makes clear. Although the Recrudescent Imperium has never condescended to membership of the disgustingly border-free Schengen zone, the Government has been given access to the information system owing to a malignant Euro-wog delusion of common cause in fighting crime and finding missing people. As long as there is a single child refugee waiting to steal British jobs, the mainland's border guards will always have better things to do than entangle themselves in Brusso-Strasbourgian red tape. Besides the usual disinclination towards reciprocity with lesser breeds, the UK is also suspected of illegally copying parts of the database and handing them over to its masters in the United States; it remains as yet unclear whether the relevant departments being in the hands of people whose idea of a password is "password" may count as a mitigating circumstance.