Shoulder to Something or Other

No matter how unsustainable a moderate and sensible administration may find such fripperies as social security, infrastructure and wages, there is always money for war. A related principle evidently applies in the matter of Team Starmer's U-turns, the promptitude of which is pereceptibly if subtly enhanced when wog-bombing is the issue. Initially in favour of perpetuating child poverty, Team Starmer took about eighteen months to decide otherwise; the shift from rear-echelon complaisance with war crimes to full-on facilitation took all of forty-eight hours. More gloriously still, not even that level of abjection proved sufficient to satisfy the Trumpster and his head-tribble, who expressed disappointment at the unwonted show of tardiness, as well as Team Starmer's lack of real-estate smarts in dealing with those cunning Mauritians.