Proper Charlies

Relations between the expenses claimants at Westminster and the parasites at Buckingham Palace continue to display encouragingly consistent levels of democratic accountability. Before passing its world-beating greenwashing bill, the Government wrote to the then Prince of Wales begging his royal permission, in case any of the new conservation measures should encroach upon his profits. As it turned out, although the measures were pitiful enough to secure assent from both the royal heir and the back-bench baboons, once the bill passed the Government missed its own deadline for setting targets and then set targets that wouldn't work. It is difficult to imagine any of the lesser breeds, let alone the beastly Euro-wogs, attaining such paroxysms of Britishness.