Constructive Dismal

The brilliant Chris Graybeing has caused a considerable gain in intelligence and security by resigning from the parliamentary committee on intelligence and security. As the Cummings administration's candidate for chair of the committee, Graybeing was parachuted in and promptly lost the vote to a fellow Conservative. The traitor was instantly purged from the Parliamentary Brexit Party, but the brilliant Graybeing was left in the confusing situation of having failed calamitously with no resulting promotion. This has never happened before; Graybeing's brilliant record as transport secretary, when he granted a ferrying contract to a company with no ships, and as minister for hanging and flogging, when he kicked the probation service to bits and forbade the sending of books to prison inmates, is nearly as luminous a demonstration of British meritocracy as the career of Boris Johnson.