Privateers of the Caribbean

Although it is incumbent on Members of Parliament to be visible to their constituents, Her Majesty's Government finds nothing wrong with their influencing national policy at the behest of whoever can outbid the taxpayer. If constituents do not find their representatives sufficiently detectable via the human optical endowment, they have a chance every five years or thereabouts to register their discontent. Nevertheless there is a limit, and the National Johnson has conspicuously declined to support Sir Geoffrey Cox, the former attorney general who supplements his parliamentary chickenfeed by giving legal advice to tropical tax dodgers. Despite this evident devotion to natural justice, Cox served as attorney general in the Tumbledown Tessie administration, which notoriously permitted the National Johnson to exercise his talents upon only a single one of the great offices of State. Unfortunately for Cox, he has been denounced by no less a moral authority than the Rothermere Daily Stürmer, which could mobilise the foaming-indignation vote and make his previous invisibility doubly inexpedient.