Maybe GMTV can explain to the next Aliyah Ismail why they're just not photogenic enough for anyone to give a damn about.
And those MPs, with their little yellow ribbons, will no doubt be the same ones who voted to keep 15 and 16 year olds in adult prisons; cut the benefits of refugees, exclude their babies from the protection of the Children's Act; and continue the assault on single mothers.
And the public, with mawkish sentimentality as their new god. No longer parading their virtue in the Sunday pews, they demonstrate the depth of their inner goodness, by forwarding emails. And feeling sad.
To be touched, however vicariously, by the distress of others, quite clearly shows you to be a better person. The veneer of piety without all that bothersome psalm singing and self denial - no wonder it's so popular.
