Fear not, for we shall have a pet cemetery

All this going on and the prime minister is busy retweeting his Animals PS’s tweet about the earth-shattering news that Labour is going to give us a pet cemetery.

From the sublime to the ridiculous.

It’s not even a pet cemetery, anyway. They’re incapable of being straight about anything. It’s a kind of columbarium. You get your animals incinerated and then you store the ashes at Joseph’s ‘pet cemetery’.

Please explain to me what is the point of that. If your animal is going to be incinerated and the ashes stuck in an urn, you might as well keep the urn in the garage. Or not keep it at all. What is the point of keeping a pet’s ashes? You have to be totally, but totally, weird to do something like that.

I can understand the wish to bury, say, your pet dog – but to incinerate it and keep the ashes? Please. There are enough whackos around.

The main point here is: don’t allow people to believe that they’re going to have somewhere they can bury their dog and cat and leave a little gravestone. It’s so dishonest.