Sajid Sucks Up

Britain's Minister for Holidays is preparing to sack up to four thousand of his own staff, according to a leaked strategy paper. This would amount to about forty per cent of the department's core staff, and would constitute a greater amputation than is deemed necessary even by the most blinkered, immature and vindictive acolytes of the Osbornomic miracle, such as George Osborne.

Sajid Javid, who was so concerned about the state of Britain's steel industry that he toddled off to Australia with his daughter, recently demonstrated his fiscal efficiency by throwing some taxpayers' money at a firm of management consultants. They seem to have come up with the goods, advising Javid to do exactly the sort of thing Javid likes to do. Javid is a Thatcherite, and he likes sacking people. Javid is also the token minority of an ethnic persuasion in a cabinet full of people who want to abolish the Human Rights Act and restore to employers the right to hire and fire on whatever grounds they dashed well please; so it's only natural that he would wish to ingratiate himself with the prefects by taking the Osbornomic miracle in his own department that little bit further than strictly necessary.