Incredible responsibility
In response to the tragic death of 27-year-old Leonard Farruku aboard the Government’s Bibby Stockholm barge, the BBC reports that:
A Home Office spokesperson said it took its responsibility for the well-being of those on board incredibly seriously.
Even before this death, I would have strongly preferred the Home Office to treat its responsibilities with credible seriousness.
To suggest, after this man’s death, that they treat the weight they give their responsibility is incredible—as in, ‘not credible: that cannot be believed; beyond belief’—strikes me as being both callous and, probably, Freudian.
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