Economic Warfare

Despite their desperate need for new toys and lots of them, Britain's plucky little servicepersons have somehow managed to foil the beastly Russians yet again. The beastly Russians have a shadow fleet of some seven hundred vessels, one of which was caught doing something nasty in the English Channel. Although the toys utilised in its capture seem to have been verging on the functional, the operation of course justifies any amount of welfare cuts to prevent our imminent obliteration; though whether it also provides a viable pretext for taxing the rich will doubtless remain a matter for vigorous democratic denial. In any case, it was certainly a fortunate whim of chance that the interception just happened to become necessary at exactly the moment when the Ministry for Wog-Bombing reached peak squeal about the sacrifices everyone else is going to have to make on behalf of King, Country, and certain anticipated careers in the private sector.