Imagine.

You fairly win an auction to buy a house. But having attempted to rig the auction the previous owner will not move out, and starts to attack you viciously when you come to claim the property.

Most of the others living on the street and further afield are dismayed, and want you to take possession peacefully. But then along comes a clever but shifty neighbour with what he says is a great idea.

That the violent previous owner and you live together nicely in the house, in the name of ‘unity’ and ‘resolving the crisis’.

What a helpful suggestion.

And how lofty the Moral Authority and Wisdom of the neighbour, who himself once called in a lot of outside help when the previous owner of his house was behaving brutally towards him.

The scorpion sings lustily.