Alexander McKibbin fires a hefty TCW broadside at our political leaders.
Shake the money tree – Sunak’s answer to everything
EVERY day it seems that Great Britain sinks deeper into a quicksand of imbecility, ignorance and fantasy, largely of its own making. Mere denizens of this benighted land can only watch in silent horror, spectators to a slow-motion train crash, the ending of which we can envisage with blinding clarity.
Hearing the increasingly ludicrous pronouncements of MPs, like many others I ponder a simple question: ‘Do they live on the same planet as me?’
Last week we were treated to a bumper crop of absurdity, no more so than our own Prime Minister passing comment on the alleged Chinese spying at Westminster. Addressing the media throng, Mr Sunak put on his most serious face and accompanying pious voice, declaiming the ‘sanctity’ of Parliament. Millions watching must have bellowed ‘Pull the other one’, or perhaps something more excoriating. The Prime Minister has remained strangely mute on the list of establishment panjandrums on the CCP-run Huawei’s payroll. No pertinent views expressed on the sanctity of these former senior civil servants and quango bosses, and therefore of Whitehall and Government?
It is well worth reading the whole piece because another bumper crop of absurdity will arrive before along.
MPs, with a handful of exceptions, have shown themselves to be a largely lacklustre group of individuals, incapable of independent thought and analysis, who have routinely voted through reams of misguided legislation. Perhaps most crippling was the 2008 Climate Change Act, piloted though Parliament by pantomime villain Ed Miliband. This outrageous Act will have catastrophic consequences for every single person in the UK. Currently we are merely suffering the tip of (a no doubt melting) iceberg.
EVERY day it seems that Great Britain sinks deeper into a quicksand of imbecility, ignorance and fantasy, largely of its own making. Mere denizens of this benighted land can only watch in silent horror, spectators to a slow-motion train crash, the ending of which we can envisage with blinding clarity.
Hearing the increasingly ludicrous pronouncements of MPs, like many others I ponder a simple question: ‘Do they live on the same planet as me?’
Last week we were treated to a bumper crop of absurdity, no more so than our own Prime Minister passing comment on the alleged Chinese spying at Westminster. Addressing the media throng, Mr Sunak put on his most serious face and accompanying pious voice, declaiming the ‘sanctity’ of Parliament. Millions watching must have bellowed ‘Pull the other one’, or perhaps something more excoriating. The Prime Minister has remained strangely mute on the list of establishment panjandrums on the CCP-run Huawei’s payroll. No pertinent views expressed on the sanctity of these former senior civil servants and quango bosses, and therefore of Whitehall and Government?
It is well worth reading the whole piece because another bumper crop of absurdity will arrive before along.
MPs, with a handful of exceptions, have shown themselves to be a largely lacklustre group of individuals, incapable of independent thought and analysis, who have routinely voted through reams of misguided legislation. Perhaps most crippling was the 2008 Climate Change Act, piloted though Parliament by pantomime villain Ed Miliband. This outrageous Act will have catastrophic consequences for every single person in the UK. Currently we are merely suffering the tip of (a no doubt melting) iceberg.
This cheerful TCW comment is where the post title comes from. Puts it very well I'd say.
Nockian
Personally I think we’ve had it.
Todays MP is not driven to serve his constituents, he’s a salesman for state policy. It’s all top down. You may as well try to get a Ford salesman to sell you an Audi. They’ve determined what’s ‘good for us’ and their goal is to give us what they’ve decided we need. They speak with one voice like Lords of the Manor handing down the Kings proclamations. Asking why is a waste of effort - because the King said. so shut up serf - but politely of course “we/I understand your concerns ..blah, blah, blah… but we’ve carefully crafted this policy to make all our lives utopian.. “ so we are going to ignore you.
2 comments:
Yes, the comment is right. We used to have a deal with MPs - they could serve their own ends if they could successfully combine that with representing our interests as well. But now they only get recruited if they agree to serve the elite, and they deal with the elite directly, cutting us out of the process.
Sam - and those who try to stick to the old relationship get nowhere because they get no support from the elite.
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