Ever Leaner, Ever Meaner

Britain's liberation from the Strasbrussels yoke has of course brought many benefits, even if most of them are too numerous to mention. Even so, and appropriately for a patriotic nostalgia project, the sunlit uplands also bask in a warm glow of national continuity, exemplified in the venerable religious dogma that the best way to solve an economic problem is generally to sack people. Having implemented divide-and-rule trade deals with so many Euro-wog countries, and with such famous success, His Majesty's Government has been trying the same tactic with the United States, and the Department of Fuck Business has helped the process along by subjecting some thirteen per cent of the relevant civil servants to involuntary liberation. Many of them had apparently been guilty of accumulating decades of experience and of working on trade pacts with several different states, and were thereby rendered susceptible to the expertise heresy. The decision to purge them was taken about two weeks before the general election was called; so one must doubt that it was intended as a scorched-earth tactic to make things more difficult for the next administration, if for no other reason than the respect due His Majesty's Government's capacity for forward planning.