Poundland Menagerie

Since Her Majesty's Government cannot afford to sustain the wages of its public health personnel, cannot afford to fulfil its manifesto pledge and legal obligations on international aid, but has no particular interest in keeping track of where the National Haystack gets his chickenfeed, the Royal Mint has done what it does best and squeezed out a giant commemorative coin. The divisional director of commemorative coins managed to say twice within the space of a hundred words that the culmination of the Queen's Beasts line is the largest ever made in the UK, because clearly that's what counts. A superbly crass and overweight tribute to modern Britishness, the numismutation combines forelock-tugging sycophancy with the artistic refinement of an elevated interior at Trumpster Towers; and it faithfully reflects the gold standard of Her Majesty's Government by being sold to a private buyer at a price far exceeding its use. In the spirit of our Mother of Democracies, cheap copies are available for the little people.