Every Little Helps

It appears that Fishy Rishi and his Minister for Wogs, Beads and Trinkets may have negotiated yet another solution to the Irish Question. The National Johnson's oven-ready deal having proved a little half-baked, the latest administration has opted for appeasement in the hope of staving off the various and competing wraths of the Farage Falange, the Dour Ultra Protestants, and those peculiar and vexatious tradesmen who seem not to realise what a sunlit upland the Irish border might be. Of course nothing short of a policy based in mere reality could satisfy the business community for very long, while the DUP is unlikely to consent with much enthusiasm to anything short of a Cromwell-with-nukes re-conquest of the Free State; but Fishy Rishi and his chums will mainly be hoping that the Farage Falange can be kept quiet long enough for the party to crawl through the May elections. Since these will be the first to take place under the Conservatives' voter suppression law, the losses may well prove less severe than a competent expectation manager could anticipate, and the Government and its chums will have postponed oblivion long enough to fill their boots just a few more times.