Sovereign Gold

Now that all minor issues such as the Irish Question have been settled to everyone's satisfaction, the Brexiteers are naturally turning once more to those thornier matters which rank in importance with blue passports and commemorative bongs from Big Ben. A number of the Conservative Party's more illustrious intellects, along with their moral guides in the scumbag press, have ordered a set of special coins from the Treasury, which has now extruded a flunkey to state unequivocally that he can see that there could be an argument. Doubtless because the Treasury has still to decide whether the Royal Mint should be moved to Frankfurt, it remains as yet unclear what design might be used. It is arguable that an armed Irishman in a hangman's hood, or a Kent-long tailback of freight lorries, could risk striking a downbeat note; and since the union of England with its peripherals may not survive the process of Imperial independence, even the image of the Union Jack might prove premature.