OTIUM FROM THE PEOPLE

PRESUMABLY ALARMED BY TODAY’S “ANTI ISLAM” march in Luton, at which something in the region of 6,000 members of the English Defence League and various other “anti foreigner” organizations are expected to attend, or perhaps worried that even the Daily Mail is beginning to be a little critical of his policies, David Cameron yesterday delivered one of his most traditionally Tory speeches since he was wooing the Conservative Grandees to become leader of their shell-shocked party.

IT IS “TIME TO GET TOUGH”, Dave tells us, on immigrant communities who refuse to accept the British way of life, suggesting that they would have to accept “British core values” such as freedom of speech, the English language, the rule of law and democracy in order to “belong in Britain”. This, of course, while sounding remarkably like something we heard last year from the ever-popular Nick Griffin, the handsome and charismatic leader of the British National Party and Member of the European Parliament, is what decent Conservative chaps like to hear, and what the Daily Mail likes to put on its front pages. So we basically have some more Dave já vu.

AND ONE IS FORCED TO WONDER, at this time when upper class multi-millionaires like the eighteen Cameron dears who are members of his government, either “running” companies that own factories which have never even been visited by their Conservative MP owners (and which employ large numbers of cheap immigrant labour), or like most of the rich ConDems who are still idling about while their fathers run their offshore investment banks for them, whether this is not just an attempt to keep our minds off the swingeing benefit cuts and stinging tax increases announced by the hapless Clegg yesterday, damaging the middle-classes who tend to feel most resentment towards immigrant communities.

STATISTICS WILL SHOW THAT AT NO PERIOD since the useless government of Andrew Bonar Law in 1922, which included seven Lords, four Earls or Viscounts, one Duke and one untitled member, has there been such a bunch of leisure-driven, out of touch, lay-a-bout, useless children of nobility running a democratic society. As long as the middle-classes keep voting for them and immigrants keep working for them at low wages they will remain merrily in otio.