FF’s ‘Darwinian politics’ hits the ill and vulnerable

MOST of us know who Charles Darwin was, what he did and, more importantly, what he thought.

It was he who developed the theory of natural selection, the process where in nature only the fittest of the species will survive and those who are weak, sick or elderly perish. Sound familiar? It should.

One could compare Darwin’s theory to the way the country is being run at the moment. Granted we are all aware that we are in a recession but that is no reason for the Government to resort to trying to kill off those most vulnerable in our society, like in nature.

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