Ass Gets Mediaeval

While there are no doubt significant advantages to being one of the Conservative Party's token darkies - few normally Oedipal sons could resist a chance of supporting legislation that would have kept their fathers in poverty - such blessings are inevitably balanced by the continual, unrelenting necessity to prove one's supremacist credentials by making a public arse of oneself. Fired by the rah-rah of a right-wing cant-tank, the ever-compliant Sajid Javid has gone all fervent about updating Britain's fourteenth-century treason law, causing an enemy of the people to use his inaugural speech as independent reviewer of terrorism legislation to suggest that there might be more efficient ways of fighting terrorism than grandstanding for the hanging-and-flogging fetishists. No longer satisfied with removing citizenship from victims of extremist grooming and letting their infant children die, the compliant Javid now wants to prosecute them as traitors rather than as terrorists. Naturally, thanks to the present administration's famous moderation, there would be no danger whatever of an updated treason law being utilised in the crushing of rebellious Scots, recalcitrant parliamentarians, metropolitan élitists or the wrong sort of Jew.