Breakable Parole

Since the Government does not wish to waste police time on anything so trivial as national security, and since Cressida Dick of all people knows which side her dum-dums are buttered, there appears little chance of the posturing schoolboy Gavin Williamson being prosecuted. This is doubly unfortunate as little Gavin's sacking has precipitated another Cabinet reshuffle with the usual degree of new brooms, fresh insights and sparkling bristles. Penny Mordaunt, despite having inadvertently misled the taxpayer over Britain's influence in the EU, moves to the Ministry for Wog-Bombing from the Department for Wog Starvation, which of course constitutes less a change of position than a change of emphasis; while something called Rory has rather handily been shunted into Mordaunt's vacancy from the Ministry for Profitable Incarceration. The move helps Rory squirm out of an indiscreet pledge to resign if the human warehousing business failed to efficientise on his watch, and the Prison Officers' Association is taking a characteristically uncharitable view of the matter. Rory listened more than Michael Gove and understood more than Chris Graybeing; but even if there is no real prospect of Gavin Williamson being sent for a little "secure training" by those educative G4S people, there are worries that his successor may lack the ability or inclination to maintain these enviable standards.