A Bandwagon Jumped is a Bandwagon Owned

Britain's Head Boy has decreed that at least some of the war kitsch festooning the Tower of London should be preserved at the Imperial War Museum for the edification of future cannon fodder. The display of ceramic poppies was to have been dismantled on 12 November; but with only a few months remaining before the general election, permitting that to happen would have been almost as careless as letting Little Ivan rest in peace or failing to try buying votes from lonely war widows. Instead, parts of the display called the Weeping Willow and the Wave will be sent on a tour of the country until 2018, the centenary year of the Armistice, Victory in Flanders, the Spanish influenza pandemic, etc. The ceramic flowers have already been sold at £25 a pop, with the proceeds going to the Royal British Legion in accordance with those British values which dictate that commerce is holier than charity; the tour will be funded with £500,000 of crooked bankers' fines which the beneficiaries of the Royal British Legion can apparently afford to do without.