From the bottom (in every possible sense) of this week’s Littlejohn column:
Fourteen workers at the Chinese factory that makes iPhones have committed suicide.
In Britain, elf ’n’ safety would have closed the plant for years while the windows were hermetically sealed; every employee would be given compulsory counselling and issued with hard-hats and hi-viz protective clothing. Blame Direct would be pumping out claims for com-pen-say-shun.
The Chinese have come up with a simpler solution, which keeps the production lines running. They have rigged up giant nets to stop workers jumping to their deaths.
Back of the net!
The ridiculous exaggeration about “‘elf ‘n’ safety” and the childish phonetic pronunciation of “compensation” aside, Littlejohn is utterly tastelessly using the suicides of a number of Chinese factory workers merely to deliver a glib and entirely unfunny punchline as well as to take a swipe at the usual suspects.
Richard Littlejohn is the Daily Mail’s highest paid “journalist” earning somewhere between £700,000 and £800,000…
Figure that one out.