In an early episode of 'Jeeves & Wooster', a magistrate from the ruling classes lays big-time into Wooster, a chap from the can't be bothered classes, for breaking the law of the land. That is to say for knocking the helmet off a policeman while drunk.
So how can such a magistrate now, when the actual rulers of the land admit to breaking the law, albeit in a way hedged around by various Cummings' flavoured nudges and fudges, lay into one of the many people who are fiddling the various schemes to help businesses through the plague. One of their own, as it were. Never mind one of the many people who are fiddling their benefits to try and scrape enough together to feed their wives and children. With a little something left over for the betting shop. Not one of their own at all.
How can he work himself into a lather over a system which seems to have broken down?
PS: is the resemblance of a policeman's helmet to the pith helmet, the uniform hat of our colonial days, a coincidence?
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