Merely Reasonable

Enemies of the people have concluded that it is reasonable to call Tory scum by its proper name. Protesters who applied the epithet to the reasonably scummy Sir Iain Duncan Scum two years ago were acquitted last November of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, whereupon the director of public prosecutions requested a judicial review. The high court found in favour of the original judgement, on the grounds that the personal scumminess of Duncan Scum was being utilised as a synecdoche for the general scumminess of Conservative policy. Nevertheless, it appears that no verdict was delivered on whether the protesters might reasonably be accused of criminally understating their case.