So Labour loves these sorts of initiatives – making the lives of immigrants just that little bit harder. It scores them Brownie Points with the Daily Mail, after all.

It’s the “Life In Britain” Citizenship test for non-EU immigrants wanting to live in the UK. The link to the official practice version of the test is currently doing the rounds on Twitter, and you can take it yourself. Note that every single link on the page other than the one to begin the test takes you through to the TSO bookshop where 3 books are available to help you prepare for taking the test, costing £9.99 for the book version and £8.99 for the PDF version – but then that one has VAT added, so it also costs £9.99.

What’s interesting is that most people, those sacred ‘Indigenous Britons’ can’t pass the test. I failed it myself, getting just 16 right. Toy Liberal failed it, despite having an A* GCSE in Citizenship. I didn’t even know there was a GCSE in Citizenship. If I had, I’d have had a good long rant about it long before now, rest assured.

The questions on this special super-hard test for immigrants, including “what year did women get the right to divorce their husbands?” and a remarkable number of questions about parliament, expose this test for what it is – a hoop, for the sheer sadistic pleasure in having made someone jump through it.

Labour like to argue that the reason they do things like this is because they need to take account of the fact that people want them to be sadistic towards immigrants, and if they’re not then someone else will win power and be even more sadistic.

If I was thinking about coming to live in the UK, and this was my introduction to the UK’s Government and “Life in Britain” I would probably reconsider. But then, that’s the point isn’t it? Hoop, monkey: Jump through it or piss off. Daily Mail loves that sort of crap.