Moral Leadership

Though an uncouth few have dispensed with the polite fiction that terms like invasion, swarms, hordes and citizens of nowhere would somehow be out of place in 1930s Germany, there remains a touchingly widespread acceptance of the idea that the Government's anathematisation of refugees is even vaguely concerned with hindering people-traffickers, as opposed to appeasing the back-bench baboons. Doubtless many patriotic souls also still believe that the primary aim of Brexit was democratisation, that the primary aim of colonialism was civilisation, and that the primary aim of the Atlantic slave trade was abolitionism. In the same pragmatic spirit, religious leaders and the Archbishop of York have criticised the Government's latest, highly purposeful round of party management as cruel, inept, and contrary to the compassionate British tradition of couching our atrocities in slightly softer rhetoric than that of Goebbels.