Inexplicable Resistance

Since the Conservative Party despises the Human Rights Act, withdrew from Afghanistan in a spirit of dogs before wogs, and will soon get around to outlawing peaceful protest and restricting the vote to paying customers, it seems only natural and British that Her Majesty's Government (it is not, you will note, a régime) should be minded to boycott the Winter Olympics on the pretext of human rights. An exception was apparently the party's intellectual firebucket Iain Duncan Smith, who wanted the boycott because our American colonies were doing it and there was risk of a boycott gap. In any case, and for whatever profound reasons of Global Britannic statesmanship, the games will just have to get by without the towering moral presence of Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries or Nigel Huddleston, or any of their toadies, gofers and flunkeys. Inexplicably, the Heathen Chinee régime (it is not, you will note, a government) has thus far seemed subtly disinclined to manifest humility or contrition in any significant degree.