We’re very happy to use the UN when we want an excuse to go to war or impose sanctions on someone we don’t like. When they point out a few home truths about the state of our country, we’re not so keen. Here’s someone with no axe to grind (a Colonial Commoner from Oz, for goodness sake) telling us that we have’ staggering levels of child poverty’. The government, surprise surprise, rejects the report ‘pointing to rising income levels’. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. And we wonder why they voted for Brexit?
