Tough Choices

For the true British patriot, there can be few choices tougher than that between racism and banging people up; yet Team Starmer and its policy-makers in the Farage Falange have somehow contrived to impose exactly that cruel dilemma. Prison officers sponsored to migrate from overseas are to be expelled from the mainland because their wages aren't high enough: an outstandingly British arrangement which could remove a thousand staff from His Majesty's criminal warehousing and retribution service just as thousands of terrorists are supporting Palestine Action. Since bringing back the death penalty for practically everything will presumably have to wait until British law is no longer encumbered by human rights, it remains as yet unclear whether Team Starmer's solution will be compulsory carceral service for unemployed teenagers, or recycling all the luxury hotel space which is soon to be vacated and filling it up with less heinous criminals than the average asylum seeker.