North Africa, this week,
has been been a gift for Cameron. He has been able to identify yet another
group of Muslims as alien, different, ‘the other’... to demonise them, to
promise unceasing war... And it sounds so reasonable, doesn’t it, these awful
people in Mali,
about whom we know nothing...
Poor Duncan Smith: with a Judicial Review and a back-bench
debate against him, circumstance this week has given him no-one new (disabled, scroungers
or skivers) to assail for now. Never mind: he’s been able to come up with the
figure of £5.3 billion which he can claim benefit-frauds have stolen from
honest Englishmen. He has no evidence or justification for that figure which
will bear a moment’s examination, but why should he care – it sounds somehow
possible. So he can go on demonising, and promising unceasing war...
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