Trouble in Store

As if their deliberate deferment to Euro-wog rules rather than to the whims of the mainland were not mean-spirited enough, the Fenian blight across the Irish Sea have maliciously multiplied themselves out of another benign legacy of Empire. For the first time since the Great Famine, when the mainland's Whig government reacted to catastrophic starvation first with laissez-faire complacency and then by rushing to the aid of well-fed landlords, the Republic's population now exceeds five million ingrates. The island's population remains considerably lower than before the international force for good exerted itself; and much of the present increase is due to immigration, the fatal curse of stubborn Euro-woggery which will undoubtedly result in an economically calamitous HGV-driver mountain before very long.