Just Common Sense

His Majesty's Government's favourite fundamentalist head-choppers are about to strike several dozen blows for traditional family values by flogging an unwed mother. Given the amount of squealing about sharia law that emanates from the Blackshirts, the Farage Falange and other moral reformers, the case is rather instructive. The beneficiary is a Kenyan migrant worker whose tainted viviparousness was manifested in a hospital rather than at home; so had her little indiscretion occurred in a properly-run hanging, flogging and National Service Britain, her racial profile, social status and consumption of native medical resources would presumably merit at least the hundred lashes prescribed by the Reformist House of Saud. Meanwhile the Kenyan government has done credit to its British and Christian colonial heritage by declining to impose upon its fallen women any burden of worldly support.