Robust British Fun Undermined from Within

Unelected enemies of the people have once more shown their lack of respect for Britain's thousand-year culture by ruling against the Government over a bit of harmless cripple-kicking. The Department of Workfare and Privation was appealing against a previous decision by some other enemies of the people, which determined that the DWP's action in effectively fining severely disabled people £180 a month for moving house was somehow illegal. If only the DWP had thought to treat all similarly disabled people with the same degree of contempt, it would have been perfectly in keeping with British justice; but in these buccaneering days the idea of equal treatment for the equally undeserving has rather fallen out of favour: Iain Duncan Smith is a laughing-stock and Boris Johnson is Prime Minister. Her Majesty's Government is now considering whether to order the supreme court to overturn the judgement and thus buy itself a little more time before the inevitable privatisation.