Selfish

An absolutely brilliant quote in this story on BBC news about the dangers of unmanned level crossings in the UK.

[the people who cause these accidents] are just inconsiderate and selfish. They should be thinking about my situation too, my situation with no husband

Now, I agree that people who commit “suicide by train” and so on, the ones who take other lives as well as their own, are in the wrong. I don’t care if someone wants to kill themselves – it’s when they take others with them as well that I object.

But I still had to laugh at “they’re so selfish. They should think of me”

Immigration

Look, Media Industry, it’s no shock that the new Home Secretary has no idea how many illegal immigrants are in the country.

See, the clue is in the title. They’re bloody well illegal. So they’re not going to call up the Home Office (or anywhere else, for that matter) and say

Oh, hello, you don’t know me, but I’ve just snuck into the country on the back of a truck, and I know you keep a count of all the people like me, so I’d just like to put a tick in that box. Yes,I’m illegal. But add me to the tally. I’m sure you won’t do anything about it.

It’d be far more newsworthy if someone said “Yes, we know exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the country, and we know every unregistered person”.