Theresa May has finally got into the spirit of Christmas by ordering a massive census of everybody in the UK and slaughtering all of the first-born children.

The news comes on the anniversary of Theresa May’s really Christmassy policy of reducing bereavement benefit for orphaned children in 2017.

“Nothing says Christmas quite like The Slaughter of the Innocents.” A spokesman for Downing Street told The Rochdale Herald.

“Or denying destitute pregnant women accommodation fit for human habitation. We’re just getting into the spirit of Christmas. Ho, ho, ho.”

“If anything people should be thanking us for this new policy of stabbing the first born children to death. If anything it’s slightly more humane than our policy of starving the third born children to death with the Universal Credit reforms that came into place in November.”

“You’re welcome and Merry Christmas.”

Quentin D Fortesqueue is a founding editor of The Rochdale Herald. Part time amateur narcissist and full time satirist Quentin is never happier than when playing his lute and drinking a full bodied Bordeaux. He rarely plays the lute and never gets to drink Bordeaux.