Some pundit on the wireless today said that we in the benighted UK are about to get a ‘new’ government. I think he mis-spoke—what we’re getting is the Continuity Conservative Party with a coat of varnish to hide the old cracks. A number of people have also been given the opportunity to say that Liz Thick is not ‘thick.’ I have to say that there is a danger that to describe her as thick could lead to accusations of misogyny. In my own case however I would insist innocence of that charge. I freely communicated, years ago my view that George W. Bush was thick. And others of the male species. What determines the definition in these cases is not whether these politicians have the wherewithal to rise to great office, but what they do with it when they get it. By all appearances our new PM has no originality, no compassion and no schema of service which benefits us all. She is a born-again Tory as shallow as a shadow, hence her mimicking Thatcherite lines and a complete absence of analysis of what’s happened these last 30 or 40 years. She is thoroughly imbued with the belief that Britain’s future lies somewhere well beyond the neo-liberal wet dream. I’m not sure the Archbishop of Canterbury (ABC) does irony, but when he reportedly said today that he was praying for our new PM, I chose to have heard an ironic remark. Unless ABC too is thick, he well knows that God has other more important things to think about (like what He needs to do to create the next Big Bang, for example).
Of course, if it is true that we are getting a new government, which has in effect been chosen by 80,000 geriatric Tory members (I’m pretty much near the geriatric category myself so I can say this without prejudice) then perhaps Her Maj could step up and say to Liz you can kiss my hand (or whatever) just as soon as you’ve won a general election. That would be an honourable thing to do.
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