If you’re black, there is no queue

TWO wealthy lawyers sat round a table at the Justice Committee on Wednesday pontificating about the contemptuous poor.

Michael McDowell boomed out his favourite crowd-pleaser, the scourge of ‘bogus asylum seekers’ (backing vocalist Jim O’Keeffe sang in harmony throughout, his only bum note was that we weren’t firing them out quickly enough).

You have to hand it to McDowell, though. Just when you think he can’t ratchet a debate up any more, along he comes and does just that.