Among the many wonderful and deeply significant news items in today's
Mail is
this journalistic gem about the foul smell that appears to have bothered
La La Londinium (and the poor, poor home counties) over the past few days.
As usual, staunch island isolationists blame someone else for the matter. Says one Sarah Holland, forecaster with the Met Office:
"The origins of the smell come from Europe and have brought in pollution."
Europe, right? So where's the UK then -- geographically, I mean? In Africa, Miss Holland (Holland being, by the way, a country, also in Europe)?
And pollution, right? Because Britain is such a green and pleasant land and an ecological role model for the rest of the world. Like...Europe.
Would readers currently in London please confirm that they, too, have noticed this stench? Because over here -- in Europe -- it actually smells quite nice (and it is sunny, and the Redstarts and Wrens are frolicking in the hedges). Which leads me to wonder if this is not another instance of hysteria-inducing misinformation manufactured by the Tory press. Now that it's
official that the UK immigrant crime wave is a construction by
certain British newspapers, maybe the next non-issue for Britain's benighted masses to fret and frown over is already being prepared.
