MAD PIG DISEASE

 


The Prime minister of the United Kingdom, heir to a post that boasted such eloquent orators as Churchill, Gladstone, Disraeli, like a drunken best man at a wedding reception, blunders, and splutters, loses his notes, goes off on a tangent about Peppa the Pig, a cartoon children’s TV star.

This before the ranks of the Confederation of British Industry. In Johnson’s case however, he does not need drink, he can accomplish this level of meandering incompetent drivel stone cold sober, doing so with a complete nonchalant and self-regard. It takes a titanium strength sense of entitlement to believe that you can get away with behaving like this. He is right to feel so confident, for he has got away with behaving like this all his life.

Welcome to British politics 2021.

Meanwhile in the US a teenager buys an automatic weapon, - normally used by armies across the globe, -  is then driven by his ‘mother’ some distance to where Black Lives protesters have assembled, shoots and kills two protesters and wounds another. Summoned before the courts he is found innocent, to have committed no offence. On your way son, for it is open season on left wing protesters.

To say that a democracy in which this can occur is unhealthy would be wrong, it is seriously ill.

Christmas comes in mid-November these days an injunction spreading like a totalitarian slogan, ‘make it magical this year.’ For the lonely, the isolated, the elderly there is, outside of the fantasy world of the TV adverts, there is no dispensation.

 

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