Backsliding From Britishness

Regrettably, it appears that the Heathen Chinee are not quite so far advanced towards our own apex of culture as they recently appeared. The thirty-six-metre, gold-painted statue of Mao Zedong which was erected a few days ago is being dismembered amid carping from the forces of antiquated leftism. One unreconstructed Communist even argued that the cost of the effigy should be spent on "improving local education", an attitude which certainly will not help the Heathen Chinee into the teacher-trashing echelons of the Bullingdon Club any time soon. Another source said that the statue was being demolished because it was on a farmer's land, which may indicate a rudimentary instinct for copying the British policy of removing everything from farmers' land, including wildlife, trees and topsoil, with results that are even now evident among the paddy fields of Cumbria. Nevertheless, it is clear that the Heathen Chinee still have a long way to go.