Cleverly Diplomatic

Britain's Minister for Misnomer has been urged to summon the Heathen Chinee ambassador after a protester was allegedly assaulted and beaten in the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester. The Labour party, whose ruling Blairite faction is famously tolerant of political protest, and a few Conservatives who are senior enough to have heard of Manchester, have registered their deep concern at the possibility that those who committed the alleged assault may not have been members in good standing of the Metropolitan Police. After the recent scolding by Boris Johnson's Minister for Wogs, Beads and Trinkets over racism and treaty-breaking, the Heathen Chinee ambassador is sure to be doubly chastened at being lectured on freedom of speech by a government that wants to imprison people for a decade if they inconvenience a graven image.