More Conspiracies

While Britain forges ahead into the sunny uplands of global buccaneering, the lesser breeds are trying desperately to recapture the lost glory of the 1950s. The perfidious Frogs and the beastly Huns have repeated their shabby Common Market trick of combining their foreign forces in a cunning collaborationist cabal and then setting conditions to make it impossible for Britain to join in. Not only have they been planning for six months (an obvious and deliberate snub to a nation whose present planning capabilities rarely extend beyond the next news cycle), but they are plotting to impose half a dozen initiatives on anyone foolish enough to accept their un-American blandishments. Five are about cyberspace, democracy, equality and other things which Her Majesty's Government either doesn't like or cannot cope with; another is about controlling lethal autonomous weapons systems, which would not only draw an iron curtain across British business but runs directly contrary to one of the few statutes to bask in the approval of the Trumpster and his head-tribble, namely the Second Amendment. Her Majesty's Government has condescended to support one of the initiatives, probably through inability to understand it; beyond that, the Recrudescent Imperium of Westminster, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is patently far too global to bother with multilateralism.