Prudent Buccaneering

As if the recalcitrant Euro-wogs and those greedy, grasping schoolteachers were not enough, the greatest economy on the globe may soon suffer yet another punishment beating thanks to the parlous financial state of Her Majesty's Government's favourite fundamentalist head-choppers. For the past several years, one of the UK's most reliable export markets has been the House of Saud's continuing rampage in Yemen, despite tentative doubts in some quarters as to whether British weapons and training are consistently being used, as specified in the instructions, by decent chaps doing jolly things. The pandemic has caused oil prices to come down faster and lower than a liberal who's been standing on principle, and there is some question how long the head-chopping House of Saud will be able to maintain its enforcement of British values at the present democratic level. Even more seriously, a reduced dependence on oil may result in a post-Trumpster White House deciding that other fundamentalist war criminals are at least as moderate and peaceable as the head-chopping House of Saud. Fortunately, given its new-found independence from the biggest free-trade area in the world, the Recrudescent Imperium of Westminster, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands will be in an ideal negotiating position, especially with so many essential workers about to resume their normal, eminently punishable status as an unjustified expense for the taxpayer.