We Don't Do Soft Power

After the roaring success of their efforts to continue and intensify the Conservatives' assault on the domestic poor and unwell, the grown-ups of Team Starmer are preparing to give foreign shirkers the same salutary treatment. Fishy Rishi used the pandemic as an excuse to cut the aid budget from a profligate seven-tenths of one per cent of national income to a princely five-tenths of one per cent; the grown-ups of Team Starmer intend cutting it to a prudent three-tenths of one per cent. A government impact assessment, prudently published just before the House of Expenses Claimants toddles off for the summer, indicates that cuts to spending on health and education will tend to have a detrimental effect on health and education; this of course is contrary to household budgeting, the national religion and the common sense of the past four and a half decades, and would therefore most likely be disregarded even if the proceeds from these particular cuts were not to be spent on wog-bombing.