Nice Weather For It

Leaders of three major housing and homelessness charities may soon be invited to consider their positions, having had the temerity to suggest to the sometime minister for morals in public life, Kwasi Kwarteng, that the Government might do more to alleviate the effects of the climate emergency on the poor. The chief executives of Shelter, Crisis and Homeless Link signed a letter to Kwarteng and the jabbering homunculus for slogans, mansions and pork-barrelling, Michael Gove, pointing out that flash floods and extreme heat are even less convenient for rough sleepers than for those upon whom the Conservatives have bestowed the sacred liberty of choosing between hypothermia and eviction. A spokesbeing responded with the usual rah-rah, demonstrating to the Government's satisfaction that people who remain homeless in the present enlightened climate do so from pure unpatriotic lack of moral fibre. It is to be hoped that the letter will be shared with the whole Cabinet, and indeed the whole Conservative Party, to reaffirm Global Britain's world-beating success in ensuring that the worst effects of the climate catastrophe are directed at the expendable.