Jet Set

It is in the nature of Britishness, when faced with a complicated situation, to complicate it further while wasting money and hurting people; hence the agitation by His Majesty's Government for a new international jet fighter project to involve Whitehall's favourite Islamic fundamentalists. Although BAE Systems has significant business links with the head-chopping House of Saud, these are doubtless almost entirely irrelevant to the forgiving attitude taken by the world's moral leadership (Britain, for those who came in late) towards such peccadilloes as the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the Saudi-led rampage in Yemen. The new fighter project, involving companies from Britain, Italy and Japan, is scheduled to commence wog-bombing by 2035 or, allowing for the advantages of British involvement, by the turn of the twenty-second century.