Proliferating Piccaninnies

I am sure we all remember the London Haystack's populist, straight-talking pledge that, whatever the extent of his party's prole-kicking, there would be no Kosovo-style social cleansing on his watch. Nevertheless, an east London council is preparing for a moral fumigation of Britain's largest hostel for homeless young people by sending twenty-nine fallen women to places with comparatively few Conservative voters. Perhaps it's because the London Haystack is busy helping the Chancellor teach the Heathen Chinee a thing or two about housing bubbles and the surveillance state; perhaps the Government hopes that hard-working families and the Red Cross will step in and pick up the pieces. Then again, perhaps it's just that the Osborne economic miracle means we can't afford the small-arms ammunition for a Kosovo on the Thames.