Sell That Thou Hast, and Give to the Millionaires

Quite apart from the electoral advantages, it's only natural that the Conservative Party should be reluctant to shed its natural racism when this kind of thing is the result. The party has so far overcome its common-sense attitudes as to form links with a black-majority evangelical church which claims to turn minor gangsters into watermelon-smiling piccaninnies. One of the church's pastors has fought a council by-election on behalf of the party and allowed herself to be photographed only slightly beyond the reach of the Imperial Haystack's busy little hands; and the church's accounts show that as of last year it was living beyond its means in the best City of London tradition. The deficit presumably explains why the church has allegedly been "encouraging" its customers to take out loans and, in the case of younger dupes, to hand over student loans for the glory of the Great Entrepreneur in the Sky. After numerous complaints, the church is finally having its dog-collar felt by the Metropolitan Police: a development welcomed by a spokesbeing who proclaimed that the church will "not condone any illegality of any leader or individual" except in the Conservative Party.