🐕💼 Ah, Westminster — where the only thing faster than a minister’s U-turn is their ability to find someone else to blame. This week’s political chew toy? Powell’s deputy. The poor soul’s been dragged out of the kennel and blamed for the collapse of a China spy case faster than you can say “classified embarrassment.”
Because nothing says leadership like yelling “fetch!” when accountability comes knocking.
🕵️♂️ A Spy Case Unravels, A Scapegoat Emerges
The China spy case, once billed as the thriller of the year, has fizzled into a bureaucratic whimper. The minister, faced with a mess that smells suspiciously like his own making, has now decided his deputy should wear the leash of failure.
It’s the oldest political trick in the Westminster playbook: when things go wrong, look serious, say “lessons will be learned,” and point dramatically at the nearest subordinate.
The public gets the illusion of justice, the press gets its headline, and the minister gets to keep his job — all thanks to the noble art of strategic blame displacement.
And why stop there? Maybe we should issue every minister an emotional-support deputy — someone trained to absorb fault, deflect outrage, and occasionally fetch coffee. That way, responsibility could finally be fully outsourced! Imagine the efficiency: government by delegation, guilt by proxy, leadership by scapegoat.
At this rate, the Prime Minister might soon need his own deputy dog, trained to bark “operational matter” whenever a scandal gets too close to No. 10.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
How long can ministers keep dodging accountability before the public stops wagging its tail? 🐾
Is this politics as usual — or just a national kennel of blame-shifting?
💬 Drop your thoughts in the comments — who’s your pick for “Best in Show” when it comes to political scapegoating?
👍 Like, share, and tag that one friend who’d make a perfect deputy dog.
The wittiest bites and sharpest snarks will feature in the next issue of the magazine. 🐶📜
Chameleon Magazine 
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