Arantor
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The more I watch, the more I find myself... baffled but amused in a twisted way.
Like the recent exchange between Keir Starmer and Nadine Dorries where she calls him graceless. Yet... there's happily circulated video of her in the chamber sat next to Spaffer Johnson (who looks every bit the naughty schoolboy who's been told off), where she's clearly shouting "You're boring!" at Starmer. Graceless much?
I've been admiring the work of John Crace and Marina Hyde - the satire columnists for the Guardian - over the last couple of years if nothing else than because somehow they manage to find the funny side of all this. We're in a time and a place where no matter how much more absurd you'd think it could get, it gets *worse*. It's like these people watched Yes, Prime Minister, then The Thick of It, and finally and especially, Alan B'Stard: The New Statesman and then went 'right, hold my beer'. And these were shows that, of their era, were considered somewhat counter-cultural and 'out there' for satirising the work of politicians. B'Stard in particular was what the late 1980s thought was too outlandish for their era of Tories.
Honestly if Thatcher were alive today - whatever your stance on her, personally, policy-wise or generally politically - she'd be wiping the floor with this shower of shit. It's like you almost have to wonder if this is some ploy to fix the energy crisis; to offend the party sensibilities and to be so shameless that Thatcher's embarrassment will lead her to spin in her grave so hard it's a new energy supply powered by beyond-the-mortal-coil fury.
And today was Boris's last showing in Prime Minister's Questions, whereupon he got to refer to the leader of the opposition as a pointless human bollard, before getting a standing ovation from all the Tories for his... wonderful service? I was, however, gratified to note that Theresa May was not standing for the most part (and when she did, it was clear she was doing it because it was expected, not because she agreed with it) and pointedly refused to clap.
They're basically stroppy children - who happen to just run the country...
Like the recent exchange between Keir Starmer and Nadine Dorries where she calls him graceless. Yet... there's happily circulated video of her in the chamber sat next to Spaffer Johnson (who looks every bit the naughty schoolboy who's been told off), where she's clearly shouting "You're boring!" at Starmer. Graceless much?
I've been admiring the work of John Crace and Marina Hyde - the satire columnists for the Guardian - over the last couple of years if nothing else than because somehow they manage to find the funny side of all this. We're in a time and a place where no matter how much more absurd you'd think it could get, it gets *worse*. It's like these people watched Yes, Prime Minister, then The Thick of It, and finally and especially, Alan B'Stard: The New Statesman and then went 'right, hold my beer'. And these were shows that, of their era, were considered somewhat counter-cultural and 'out there' for satirising the work of politicians. B'Stard in particular was what the late 1980s thought was too outlandish for their era of Tories.
Honestly if Thatcher were alive today - whatever your stance on her, personally, policy-wise or generally politically - she'd be wiping the floor with this shower of shit. It's like you almost have to wonder if this is some ploy to fix the energy crisis; to offend the party sensibilities and to be so shameless that Thatcher's embarrassment will lead her to spin in her grave so hard it's a new energy supply powered by beyond-the-mortal-coil fury.
And today was Boris's last showing in Prime Minister's Questions, whereupon he got to refer to the leader of the opposition as a pointless human bollard, before getting a standing ovation from all the Tories for his... wonderful service? I was, however, gratified to note that Theresa May was not standing for the most part (and when she did, it was clear she was doing it because it was expected, not because she agreed with it) and pointedly refused to clap.
They're basically stroppy children - who happen to just run the country...
