Even Change Can Go Too Far

We are all aware by now that nobody who worked closely with Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring had the slightest idea that anything might possibly be amiss about him; and such innocence is particularly poignant in the case of the Minister for Poverty and Workfare, who dispensed some moral advice today. Since Lord Mandelbrot is too generous a beneficiary of the taxpayer's money to be considered a scrounger or a shirker, the minister and hurriedly-former ally recommended a voluntary refund of the payment he received as a reward for being sacked. Others are going further and calling for the resignation of the CEO of Team Starmer and even of the prime minister, Morgan McSweeney; but the Minister for Poverty and Workfare balks at such rashness. The idea of penalising a government functionary for being a serial crook is dangerous enough; but the idea of resignation on grounds of incompetence is well beyond the boundaries of the moderate and sensible.