The phrase "sell your own grandmother" is often bandied around without real justification but the current generation of Tories in the British government at the

The phrase "sell your own grandmother" is often bandied around without real justification but the current generation of Tories in the British government at the moment really would. Regardless of the virtues of preserving culture and tradition, from a "purely" analytical (well, heuristical) perspective: What happens when you sell off, i.e. throw away, one too many things? It's the opposite of Lindy.