An Awfully Big Deal

A corrupt, caste-ridden and viciously nationalistic country, whose government betrays an atavistic urge towards worship of the milk-snatching sacred cow, has stumbled at last to the brink of a trade deal with Narendra Modi's India. The Symonds-Stratton administration's rah-rah team bragged that the results would be bigger than the EU and the USA combined: an assertion which, for Britain's leading liberal newspaper, brooked neither analysis nor contradiction. Of more material importance is the possibility that Her Majesty's systematically non-racist Ministry for Wog Control will be able to deport more migrants in return for permitting Indian students to pay British university fees without being immediately locked up. The chancellor's father-in-law has graciously agreed to create a thousand jobs; but that of course is a mere detail, and Little Rishi's kickback not even that.