Back Towards The Locus

It’s a shame that tiresome twazzocks jumped onto the ZanuLabour meme, because Nu-Labour would have been much more apt. That cynical careerism; the crass attempts towards popular appeal; the adoption of relevant themes, only to distort them into a nauseating mess.

Still, at least Blair – for all his faults – could play guitar.

For an example of Labour’s Limp Bizkitesque deviousness, see their platitudinous warblings over “humanitarianism”. David Miliband salutes the “brave people“, “fighting to gain tomorrow the democracies that we…are blessed with today“. Gisela Stuart tells us that “most politicians” are motivated by “a feeling that things don’t have to be the way they are and that there is something we can do to make it better“.

And yet, with a genuine humanitarian issue on their hands – so easily solveable that all they have to do is precisely nothing – they get all sociopathic on our asses. Via Neil at The Bleeding Heart Show there’s this…

“A Zimbabwean woman and her two daughters who fled the Mugabe regime are to be deported from Britain despite promises by the Government to protect the country’s citizens

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Mrs Thulambo and her daughters Valerie, 20, and Lorraine, 18, have spent eight years in the UK. Mrs Thulambo’s Cambridge-educated husband, Macca, was killed for his links to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. His widow tried to leave Zimbabwe but was arrested at the airport, and later tortured and raped.”

Would anyone with even a modicum of compassion allow this, or allow the continuation of a system that ensures this?

Incidentally, I can’t stand the sort that would excuse this by whining “but…but…we’re full up“. It’s equivalent to throwing a pensioner over the side of a lifeboat so as to give oneself some legroom.