I have not seen Slumdog Millionaire but so I suspect have half the idiots who were celebrating on the streets yesterday. I have seen the BBC celebrating the victory of a British film by a British director. A BBC reporter went with one of the child actors of the film to where his father lay under an awning of some sacking material. He claimed to be dying of TB. The boy said that he hated life in the slum which was like that of a dog. He should have told his father that. Only a dog would give birth to a load of children without having a roof over his head. TB was also the cause of death of the father of Balram Halwai, hero of the Booker Prize winning novel by Aravind Adiga. I have read the book in which the hero murders his employer, who has been treating him very well, and robs the money he was carrying to pay bribes to government officers and starts a transport business for call centre employees in Bangalore. India has had a family planning programme running since the 1950s and poor people are aware of it. They are not stupid. They do not produce so many children as an insurance against old age but to send these children out to work as soon as possible and then live on their earnings. They pretend innocence and demand free handouts from the politicians in return for their votes thus depriving the educated people of any say in the running of the country. No country can survive this exponential growth in its underclass yet that is what these liberals tell us we should do. No wonder they are called wooly headed.