Noble Rot

Though often maligned as being divorced from the truth on grounds of persistent adultery, the National Johnson in fact has as intimate a relationship with reality as any other caricature. Like the mainstream British establishment, he believes that laws are for the little people, that the state exists to serve his own interests, and that competence is less valuable than sycophancy. His eventual defenestration came about through inefficiency and bad manners; had there been any genuine divergence of principle, he would not have attained office in the first place. Thus it has come about that, after a mere eighteen months of investigation, a journalist has discovered that the House of Lords is a house of lords and that those appointed there are not always elevated purely on a disinterested assessment of their service to the public good. The National Johnson is so luminous an embodiment of the realm's meritocracy that not even freedom of British information can cover it up for more than a year and a half.