Weak Case

An official briefing document for the king's speech has been edited to expunge a claim that the Truss mini-budget was somehow disastrous. La Truss was so exercised by this characterisation of her blip at the top that she took time out from courting the Trumpster and his head-tribble to lecture the cabinet secretary on the proprieties. La Truss urged "suitable admonishment" for the forces of woke metropolitan civil service blobness which somehow detected disaster in a fiscal policy which tanked the markets and led to the sacking of the chancellor and the resignation of La Truss herself after seven weeks in office. Apparently the regrettable events which followed the mini-budget were all someone else's fault, and any disaster lay not in the policy itself but merely in the immediate and wholly foreseeable consequences of that policy, and things might have been very different if only things had been different. Naturally, rather than dismissing the complaint with the snigger it deserves, the cabinet secretary boldly caved in. Pledged as Team Starmer may be to eschew the siren song of populist snake-oil while fixing what is under the bonnet of Britain's maxed-out credit card, its commitment to the itsy-bitsy feelings of the far right evidently remains as unerring as ever.