Sucking Up to the In-Laws

The leader of a corrupt and Muslim-baiting far-right government has been getting all cosy with Narendra Modi, apparently in the hope of bodging together an election-saving trade deal should the gerrymandering prove inadequate. Despite the meeting being put off for a day while Modi attended to something important, Fishy Rishi also managed to refrain from emulating his former master, the National Johnson, by quoting Kipling at the natives; although in fairness this was most likely because Fishy Rishi has never heard of Kipling except when cake futures show up exceedingly well on the spreadsheets. Fishy Rishi did not even scold the Indians over their continuing imports of Russian oil and armaments, since legitimate business interests are a very different matter to the insidious schemes of the Heathen Chinee, which could have risked a premature termination of the Ukraine war and its concomitant profits for the right sort of people.