(Before the horror: fans celebrate a stranger’s pain.)Fans of TV gameshows Big Brother and The Weakest Link expressed dismay on message boards today after it emerged that the deportation of a terminally ill Ghanaian woman has done nothing for their own poorly relatives.
“It’s absolutely disgusting!” Maxine Wartooth, South Cave, protested. “When they pulled the plug on my poor old Dad, I knew for certain it was foreign people to blame. Now I’m not so sure.”
“Bloody disgusting!” echoed Wendy Hell, Barking. “The suffering of this lady from abroad must have increased tenfold, and yet my hips feel no better. What’s going on?”
Rob and Charity Merryweather, Redditch, were equally bemused: “When we heard that a foreign national was to be denied treatment, we were over the moon and became visibly less irate. But now, two days on and the cruelty still hasn’t translated into practical improvement for ourselves. It’s a shame we have no conception of solidarity. In fact, our blood pressure is now slightly higher than it was before, perhaps because we fear what the rest of the world will do to us if we are ever at its mercy.”
The gameshows, which are all framed as zero-sum games, are a popular form of entertainment in the UK.
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