Regrettable Oversight

Doubtless with only the highest motives in mind, a former environment secretary has belatedly come forward to declare her interest in a major fossil fuel corporation. Theresa Villiers, whose appointment to the Department for Huntin', Shootin', Fishin' and Greenwashing was presumably undertaken as seriously as anything else in the National Johnson's administration, did not deign to declare her Shell portfolio at the time, apparently because it did not occur to her that a £70,000 stake in petroleum profiteering might have any relevance to the post. Fortunately, nothing Villiers has ever said or done as a member of the House of Claimants has been influenced by her holdings, and of course the idea of a Conservative MP being motivated by market forces is nearly as absurd as the idea of a National Johnson appointee being either a fool or a crook.