8. Bernie’s Defection and Rabbit Independence
The Prime Minister had been assured by the secret service that they were continuing to investigate opportunities for understanding the alien weaponry. All activity by the aliens was being monitored. They, along with her security advisors, were in agreement that the coming talk-show would be no threat. Worse things were happening on the street. Or the motorway. There had just been a pile-up on the M25 thanks to a group of militant rabbits, complete with a Vox Lagomorpha, simply stepping across four busy lanes as if they were on a Sunday School picnic.
‘It’s really very difficult, Sylvia,’ finished the Chief of Staff, an old university chum of the Prime Minister; she was looking exceedingly harassed.
‘Nonsense,’ scoffed the Press Secretary, ‘i
