Cleverly Slanted

Britain's Misnomer for Wogs, Beads and Trinkets has put yet another uppity foreigner in their place. His Australian counterpart, who has carelessly allowed her British heritage to become tainted with Heathen Chinee, was indiscreet enough to mention the colonial exploitation of Chinese workers, which Mr Churchill once defended with such famous terminological exactitude. The Misnomer shrugged off the matter with his usual sledgehammer tact, proclaiming to a press conference that the Conservative Party now promotes ethnic minorities to the highest offices of state, and that therefore the master race will take no lectures from the different-but-equal. Some may recall how the Soviet Communist Party stopped falsifying history the moment the Georgians Dzhugashvili and Beria were permitted to take charge in Russia; but it seems doubtful that such historical analogies are equal to Cleverly's powers of cognition. More likely his remarks, as usual in the past three or four administrations, were not addressed to their ostensible audience at all, but to the domestic rabble of back-bench baboons who might at any moment gang up to kick him off the gravy train. If nothing else, Cleverly's bragging about the coloureds in the Cabinet shows that he subscribes unequivocally to the great Conservative axiom that policy is less important than parentage.