The Spectator’s summer debating season ended with a strident appeal. ‘Too
late to save Britain. It’s time to leave’. Proposing the motion, Rod Liddle claimed to have mis-read his invitation. ‘I thought this was a foregone conclusion and we’d come
here to arrange the tickets.’ Surging immigration, he said, was ruining the education system and our love lives. ‘By 2029 no one will be having sex, we’ll be so crowded
out.’ The recent election had proved nothing but democracy’s impotence. ‘The poverty gap keeps widening, financiers still get bonuses and schools support Lesbian Gay and
Trans-gender History Month.’ Soon he predicted that the definition of disability ‘will cover everyone except Ray Mears.’ He finished with a cheery valediction. ‘Get the hell
out!’
Bonnie Greer, opposing the motion, seems to have turned into Britain’s Nelson Mandela. She only has to show up and everyone applauds. Enthusing about our eccentricity she quoted JG Ballard.
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