Let the Dead Bury the Dead

Although the Conservative Party has few problems with letting people die, a small parliamentary minority is at least anxious that the more deserving remains should be tidily disposed of. Spiritual consolation, like so much of the Government's policy during the pandemic, is more economical than PPE; and a group of thirty-six expenses claimants has petitioned the Church of England to resume appropriate use of that real estate which the Queen Gawblesser has graciously leased unto the Almighty. Among the supplicants are Theresa Villiers, presumably chafing somewhat at her status as the most forgettable Conservative environment secretary before the present one; and the disgraced former Minister for Werritty, the vole-brained Liam Fox, who has never yet passed up an opportunity to demonstrate how much safer the nation became when he gave up general practice for major profits.