We’ve all seen it, the media story where someone we’ve never heard of is appointed as head of some official or semi-official body we may or may not have heard of either. Always one of those people who haven’t necessarily achieved much but seem to be remarkably well-connected socially. Members of the Establishment of course.
Which leads us on to a feature of modern life - the Floater. The Floater is a phenomenon of think tanks, governments agencies, quangos, NGOs, major charities, commissions, boards, regulators and other semi-official bodies where a dull but sound Establishment figure is required as the public face of a dull and not obviously vital organisation.
Floaters are just that – figureheads who float from role to role across the murky waters of public life. They float from conference to conference, summit to summit, forum to forum, dispensing fashionable views, nostrums, exhortations and the very latest in managerial politics.
Even someone such as Rachel Reeves is more Floater than Chancellor. She is the Treasury figurehead, the public face nobody in the Treasury actually listens to as they plan their next round of useless meddling. Reeves is the Treasury Floater, dispensing platitudes, dishonesty and nonsense until the time comes for her to float away to another mooring.
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Speed, bonnie float, like a bird on the wing.
Onward, the sailors cry!
Carry the Cur that’s born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.
[or further!]
Loud the winds howls, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclaps rend the air.
Baffled our foes stand on the shore.
Follow they will not dare.
Here's another tale of the floaters' Gestapo at work.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/26/teacher-referred-to-prevent-after-showing-trump-videos-to-politics-students/
dearieme - ha ha, put like that it's almost sad - almost. He may have been born to be King but doesn't know how, William doesn't seem to know either.
Thanks for the link, there is no need to recruit government informers, we seem to have enough volunteers.
Successful floaters rise to the top, just like scum. But that is too unkind to scum for it can be skimmed off, unlike 'successful' politicians that hang on to their positions like limpets.
DJ - ha ha, yes it's ironic that Seaside Ange once referred to the Tories as "scum", but now many of them have been skimmed off, her lot bobbed to the surface.
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