Idle Foreign Beasts

Six months after the Grenfell Tower disaster, something rather similar has occurred at London Zoo: a fire broke out last night and apparently caused the death of several creatures which the Conservative Party regards as foreigners and animals. In this case, most civilised people also believe that the casualties were animals, so the dead-eyed warden of HM Zoo UK may not feel obliged to favour the survivors with a photo-opportunity involving herself and none of them; unless of course her little pet Gavin informs her that concern for animals is considered not only human, but British as well. At the moment, as at the corresponding point in the Grenfell Tower disaster, the precise casualty figures remain unclear; as do the cause of the fire and the chances of survivors being deported or sent to the slaughterhouse within three weeks.