Back off, Mencap – let idiot councillors express their idiot opinions if they want to

Having given the matter careful consideration, I have decided that I do not agree with councillor Colin Brewer’s suggestion that disabled children should be ‘put down’ after birth, perhaps in the manner of a farmer smashing a deformed newly born lamb against a wall, as he helpfully put it. ‘You can’t have lambs wandering around with two heads or five legs, can you?’ Colin asked, presumably rhetorically. Colin is a councillor in Wadebridge East, Cornwall, and does not come across as the fullest pasty in the lunchbox. It would not surprise me if some wag has already made the rather bad-taste point to him that if his proposal were adopted, the Cornish population would disappear very quickly.

On the other hand, he is not alone in his belief that there is a moral case for post-birth euthanasia — or ‘murder’, as we more usually call it. There are plenty of intellectual, leftish ethicists who would be prepared to contemplate such a thing.