Double think

The Downing Street Mafiosi are assuring us that the double the going rate secret pay-off to Lord Petie wasn’t hush money and an abuse of the taxpayer. But they want him to give the money to charity as a gesture which will make everything okay again.
    Except for the abuse of the taxpayer, of course.
p.s. Sir Oily of the F.O. thinks it was good value for money, which makes everything okay.