It Was Good Enough For Eichmann

In yet another paroxysm of toxic un-Britishness, the union for senior civil servants has threatened to use, of all things, the law to determine whether the will of the people and the whims of ministers can be trumped by vexatious legalisms. Britain's sovereign parliament is expected soon to rubber-stamp the Government's wog transportation bill, which incidentally states that ministers have the right to override international law on as limited and specific a basis as seems convenient at the time. The civil service code obliges officials to comply with the law, which even in Global Britain includes international law; and the union, under the leadership of the incriminatingly-surnamed Dave Penman, has raised concerns that the we were only obeying orders defence, famously if unsuccessfully utilised by some patriots at Nuremberg, may not prove altogether effective should civil servants run into trouble for following illegal instructions. Even a clarification by the top civil servant at the Ministry for Wog Control and a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Ministerial Ministrations, to the effect that little people should do as they're told, has not entirely resolved the matter.