On the other, it's just mad that they can't assimilate into society as equal citizens to everyone else.
However, it's less fun or funny than it thinks, and isn't doing much beyond that.
Gratuitous padding, that.
It kinda feels like it's only thrown in there as a reaction to the pro-anarchism in Paul Cornell's books.
Tragedy Day (aka the literal next book): Anarchy is totalitarian fascism
How tepid.
The book ends with the Doctor giving a speech about how the colonists (a few of whom wiped out the natives of the planet) should go expand and settle across that world.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
This author has nothing when he fails to be funny, and this failed to be funny.