Political Bonds

Daveybloke's mad old cat lady has been induced to drop plans to extort £3000 apiece from applicants for six-month visas. Of course, the charge would not have applied to all applicants, only to those whom the Home Office considered high-risk; namely those from Commonwealth states with a suspicious preponderance of brown people. Fiendishly, some countries threatened to retaliate by demanding money from British tourists. The Deputy Conservatives were all in favour at first, perhaps because someone actually bothered to tell them about it; but Wee Nicky and his little orange chums have apparently been persuaded that echt-UKIP stunts, while they may be more popular than pandering to energy profiteers or stiffing the taxpayer over Royal Mail, are not quite the way to go. Not this week, anyway.