By Wee Hamish

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when David Cameron had the cheek to spout about Britain’s extraordinary compassion in agreeing to take 4,000 refugees a year for the next five years. Does he think we’re so stupid we can’t count? Twenty thousand sounds like a lot but when you break it down, he’s agreeing to accept an average of 11 people a day for the next five years, while Germany took in 18,000 over the past weekend.

And it gets worse. Honestly, it does. The refugees Britain will take are not those currently walking across Europe in search of safety but are those who are still in camps in and around Syria. What Cameron failed to mention is how these people are supposed to reach the UK and the minor detail that these are the very people who might not be alive in five years’ time, especially if he gets his way and starts bombing them in order to persuade them to stay where they are. Honestly, the guy’s a pure mental bampot.

And it gets even worse than that. Another thing he forgot to mention but was slipped out in a later comment by one of his cronies in the House of Lords is that any children who come to the UK as refugees will be expelled as soon as they reach the age of 18. What? Seriously? You bet!

That’s Britain’s interpretation of extraordinary compassion. Excuse me while I boak.

And then the Tories wonder why people are radicalised and hate the UK. Surely it isn’t all that difficult to understand, you muppets! Take a look in the mirror and see what you are saying and doing.

To borrow from what Rab Bruce’s Spider said yesterday, we’ve all been told for so long that greed and self-interest are the normal ways to behave that some people aren’t capable of seeing just how selfish and inhumane their views are. When you have a former Archbishop of Canterbury demanding all out war you really need to wonder what British Values really are. OK, the guys who were killed by drones last month might have been planning terrorist attacks on the UK but they were 2,500 miles away, for God’s sake! If you can gather enough intelligence (although intelligence isn’t exactly much in evidence among our ruling snobs) surely to God you can keep track on them and arrest them when they try to enter the UK? Whatever the drone strike was, it wasn’t self-defence.

I think David Cameron has probably watched Gladiator too often and thought that Commodus guy was so cool he adopted him as his role model. Or maybe George Orwell was right and just got his date wrong when he wrote 1984.

The worst thing about all this is that a lot of people are cheering on the Tories as if there’s nothing wrong with what they are doing. The sooner Scotland gets away from this nightmare of a United Kingdom, the better.