Purple Buboes, Yellow Pus

Now that the Farage Falange vote has been more or less completely absorbed by the Conservatives, the general secretary of the smaller racist rabble has tried to look on the bright side by comparing his party to one of the biggest disasters in human history. The Black Death, a fourteenth-century pandemic most likely caused by an ancestor of the present-day Yersinia pestis bacillus, "led to economic growth and the Renaissance" by the benign expedient of killing off between a quarter and a third of Europe's population, as well as a few non-whites. The plague was an Asian immigrant, but on the positive side it was spread by fleas that were parasitic on rats, which makes for a fair enough parallel with the doctrines of the Farage Falange. The bacillus has apparently not been approached for comment, so it remains as yet unclear whether Yersinia pestis plans to sue the Farage Falange for defamation.