More Lives Well Spent

At least thirty-five more British jobs are saved or presumed saved off the Libyan coast; this will certainly please all decent and pragmatic patriots, except possibly for those Rwandan warehouse staff who might one day have profited by the criminals' transportation. The Associated Press notes in Britain's leading liberal newspaper that traffickers are using the chaos in Libya to monetise victims of war and poverty; which would be a wholly admirable bit of entrepreneurial pluck were it not for the refugees' unfortunate habit of turning into economic migrants somewhere along the way. Quite apart from the time and effort which Britain put into creating the current free market in Libya (a sacrifice ungratefully omitted from the Associated Press report), the last thing the master race needs during a labour shortage is a swarming horde of potential workers.