Haystack Hovadina

The Imperial Haystack has been engaging with Britain's partners in Europe after the natural fashion of a statesman of his calibre, by having a bit of a blather in the local Press. Although the British parliament, whose sovereignty he was once so eager to restore, is not allowed a running commentary on the Government's ongoing nervous breakdown, the Haystack informed a Czech newspaper that the UK would probably be leaving the EU customs union, apparently on the grounds that serious harm to the economy can be jolly rah-rah if it keeps the wogs at bay. The Haystack also dismissed the idea that freedom of movement was ever a founding pillar of the EU. In the world of mere facts, the right to freedom of movement was enshrined in the Treaty of Rome (1957); but Britain's leading liberal newspaper has not had the temerity to contradict him.