Cheap and Plentiful

The Conservative Party chair, whose dedication to public service famously extends to billing the taxpayer for heating his private stables, has invoked the sainted Thatcher's Enemy Within malediction upon striking public sector workers. Although ministers' doors are always open provided that union barons avoid the subject of pay and confine themselves to discussions about the weather and how jolly well the Government is doing, the home-heating extremists and child-feeding fanatics continue in their obstinate refusal to thrive on the nation's applause and see off the fiend Putin with a demonstration of democratic harmony. Whatever Britain's other difficulties, it appears that growth in the traitor market continues healthily unabated.