It Takes One to Smell One

Conservative councillors in the north of England have suddenly noticed some of the cutbacks in local services, and are squeaking with righteous indignation. A very large rat was discovered inside someone's home, and the local representatives of the sub-verminous party made haste to disassociate themselves from any social conditions that might have helped to bring about its appearance. As always, it seems to be mostly the fault of the filthy plebs and their feckless low-income choice of lifestyle, which causes the rats to seek more prosperous pastures among the hard-working families. Since all the relevant cutbacks must self-evidently have taken place within the past thirteen months rather than during the decade and a half of steady prosperity which went before, the Conservatives will doubtless leave no stone unturned, no opponent unblamed and no minority unsmeared in rooting out the culprits.