Quite Traumatic

Conservative politicians have long been known for loving not wisely but too well, and the helpmeat of a West Northamptonshire councillor has done her part in continuing this charming sentimental tradition. Birmingham crown court jailed her for thirty-one months over an online post calling for mass deportations of asylum seekers and burning of wog warehouses after last summer's atrocity in Southport. Since her little indiscretion was not explicitly directed against the people of Gaza, it constituted an attempt to stir up racial hatred rather than a call for ceasefire, and the perpetrator is expected to be back on the streets in less than a year and a half. Righteous indignation from Conservatives over the leniency of the sentence has not been conspicuously forthcoming.