A Brace of Britishnesses

I am sure we all sympathise deeply with Arron Banks, the founder of Leave.EU who has now split with the New Real Provisional Farage Falange and its strutting Caudillo in order to grow fun-free Britishness cannabis in Belize. Banks' Twitter account has been hacked and his private messages splurged across the internet for all to see, and even subjected to fake news, which must be jolly traumatic for him. Doubtless his new chums in the parliamentary wing of the Brexit Party will be able to help with any legal costs, with the aid of the ever-willing British taxpayer.

Elsewhere, one of the parliamentary Brexit Party's candidates has been sharing his insights on what ought to be done about undesirables. With admirable Johnsonian forthrightness, he advocated evicting "nuisance tenants" (there being, of course, no such thing as a nuisance owner-occupier, let alone a nuisance absentee landlord) and putting them in labour camps. The ex-Deputy Conservative education spokesbeing responded with superb hypocrisy, burbling about stoking and entrenching division and targeting vulnerable people, for all the world like a member of a party that opposed the hostile environment and voted against the bedroom tax.