Falling Out

In yet another blatant attempt to victimise their betters, the United Nations' hundred and twenty-two least significant nations have voted to ban not only the development, manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons, but even the threat of use and the stationing of independent deterrents in vassal states. Those powers now in breach of current disarmament treaties did not deign to take part in the talks, the USA and its poodle staying away because the threat from North Korea's deterrent demonstrates yet again that nuclear weapons are far too dangerous to get rid of. Despite its recently-acquired enthusiasm for tearing up old agreements and begging door to door for new ones, Her Majesty's Government would prefer to stick with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which has worked so well in the cases of North Korea, Iran, India, Pakistan and Israel. Nevertheless, the Recrudescent Imperium of Westminster, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands was unable to punch sufficiently above its weight to persuade many others of its case, even with the advantage of the current Foreign Secretary's good name and sober statesmanship. Since genocide rah rah was one of the Conservatives' few coherent manifesto commitments, Her Majesty's Government will be particularly aggrieved at this latest uppity display by the lesser breeds within the law.