Diplomatic Economy

In light of the pressures facing the British taxpayer, His Majesty's Government has very prudently decreed that the expense of inflicting the Trumpster, his head-tribble and their slimy little henchman on Scotland during the summer should be borne entirely by the Scottish taxpayer. The Trumpster and his head-tribble were accommodated at a cost of some twenty-one million, while putting up the vance-poxident cost a perhaps unduly flattering seven times less. His Majesty's Government is framing the visits as holidays; and since the Trumpster seems to have given most of his time and attention to his golf courses this presumably counts as more appeasement diplomacy, evading punitive tariffs by nodding along with the Trumpster's own view of the event. Meetings with the president of the EU Commission and with the CEO of Team Starmer constitute a purely incidental detail for the Trumpster and his head-tribble, so naturally they are equally if not more incidental to His Majesty's most allied and obliging Government. Equally, the fact that Scotland elected only twenty-one Labour MSPs and only one from Labour's policymakers at the Farage Falange surely indicates that Scottish taxpayers need to learn some hard lessons about grown-up politics and legitimate concerns.