A lighthearted but caustic look at today's problems...

It ought to be obvious to every Briton, rich, poor, or even comatose, the UK is not governed. In other words there is no government. There are people in the corridors and rooms of buildings designated to ‘house’ government, leaders of party or moronic personnel from something called Civil Service. Whatever that is. I said obvious because those that occupy the seats are people plucked from the street because they were happen to walk by the door at the time. The present day PM sat in an office, working on his latest diatribe against a nation called Israel when the coffee-lady came in to tell him a political party called ‘Labour’ needed help. As he had just visited his bank to complain about his overdraft charges, the teller who had ‘helped’ him, a nice lady called ‘Reef’ or something like it, he thought would be good at counting. That’s it, we have a new government as no one else could be found.

Like this scenario? Who says it isn’t true? Every decision is followed by either a U-turn or ignored by everyone else. Stumbling from calamity to calamity all of us should ask, how have we arrived dressed in such a straight-jacket? What has gone wrong? What happened to the calibre of people who put themselves up for Office? Are they all deluded? Are they all aliens perhaps? Aliens from the planet Jet and we are saddled with the Jetsons? Nice people but useless at managing. The problem of course is, if you have such people in positions where they can ‘change’ things, they do! But unfortunately, they change life to what they think, not what we need! It seems to stem from way back when our universities started to find ways to ‘earn’ more money. Just look at who and what attends our once great establishments for learning. It wouldn’t surprise you to find wonderful new subjects. Subjects like how to boil a potato. Cambridge University is still looking for the answer on ‘Which came first, the chicken or the egg’. A department of 650 people and a course attended by 1,000 students. 999 of them were ‘imported’ from Sub-Saharan Africa. It goes without saying you and I have to support all of that. Now you know why there are so many taxes levied on about everything you can think of. Please stop farting because you will have to pay a fine of £1,000 for polluting the air. Everybody else is OK, water companies can pour all the sh*t they want into our rivers and sea. The government doesn’t want to know. The only thing the government knows, (I hate to call them government but for want of a better word..) is finding new ways to control all our lives. Soon they will issue everyone with a pedometer so they know how much and when you walk so they can tax you if you go over the 7,000 steps because you are wearing out the tarmac.

Not true, you say? Isn’t it? Oh dear, you’re not one of those aliens, eh?

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