Raquel Rolnik, a UN official from Brazil, today criticized the Tories' "bedroom tax", calling it a "shocking" breach of human rights. She claimed that the cuts in housing benefits who live in home with 'spare bedrooms', introduced in April, were affected the "most vulnerable, the most fragile, the people on the fringes of everyday life", and proceeded to tell the Tory government they were being right tits about it all, it's getting rather tiresome and they should really stop now.
She pointed out that moving disabled people out of their own homes is a 'breach of human rights'. Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party chairman, responded to this with typical eloquence and poise. On the Today programme on Radio 4, he questioned how "a WOMAN, from BRAZIL" had the audacity to tell him what to do. He also pointed out that Brazil is foreign, that it's certainly not in the Home Counties and that Ms Rolnik is a WOMAN, later clarifying that SHE'S A WOMAN and that if that wasn't bad enough, she's foreign.
He also pointed out that it's not fair for the UN to go into a country uninvited by the government to investigate human rights abuses. In totally unrelated news, not long ago, Shapps voted with his party to intervene in Syria on the basis of information being gathered by uninvited investigators.
Shapps is also in the running for this year's inaugural annual "Daily Quail Hypocrisy Prize". Shapps is this year fighting tough competition in the bedroom-tax busting Michael Gove, with other competitors yet to be announced.
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