Clacton-On-Sea auction house.

Five points if you can guess who the auctioneer will be.

Bonus ten points if you can guess what percentage of the takings will be skimmed.

Instantly came into my head. In fact I went straight to “They’ll probably get other asylum seekers to sort through all the jewellery and sort it into piles.”

It feels very specific and performative, rather than based on any logic or proportionality: the sums raised with be piffling, the effect demeaning, but, oh, the tweets and headlines...