First They Came for the Unemployed

I am sure you all know Pastor Niemoller’s famous poem from Nazi Germany. With reference to that I bring you this from Mark Wadsworth’s ever excellent blog. It made me smile

First they came for the unemployed….

… and I didn’t speak out, despite being unemployed and unemployable and living off taxpayer funded benefits myself.

In fact, I enjoyed the moral high ground while it lasted, gleefully joining in the witch hunt and kicking those further down the heap, because I was over 65 (or 60 if a woman).

Oops.