Saturday 14 December 2019

Happy Christmas Mr President

Well we can all sit back and relax now. There are going to be some very beady eyes on Boris over the coming few months but, as everyone knows, three months is an age in politics - especially now - and he has very thick skin indeed.

He has admitted that he owes the North East working-class (that is the easiest way of describing them, even if they have no jobs)  a great deal by trusting him with their vote. There are many inexperienced Conservative candidates up North who have unexpectedly found themselves with a job. They were supposed to be cannon-fodder in Labour safe seats. They start work in London on Monday. Some may have to crash on Rees-Mogg's sofa until they can find digs on the outskirts.

Boris can now begin the reforms that were darkly hinted at during some quieter moments on the trail - the funding of the BBC by turning it into a Netflix style model, for instance. Any shortfall in revenue would be made up from advertising, I assume. Rupert Murdoch had been pressing for that for years, complaining of an uneven playing field on which to compete. Whatever the licence fee, it will be paid for by us as usual, the difference being that it will be forced to turn itself into a profit-making organisation so that the investors can pay for your measly pensions. If you are over 75 you will be paying for your pension to watch TV.

The NHS is in safe hands. Boris told us that, and we know he never tells a lie. He didn't lie. He just didn't say which country the future drugs procurement contracts will be signed with.

This election was a toss-up between a rock and a hard place, forcing the turkeys to vote for Christmas.

15 comments:

  1. I don't agree with your last para'. It was a toss-up between a bunch of dangerous Marxists at No 10, or some people who ALWAYS leave the country in a better state than when they started. Not a difficult choice!

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    1. It depends on what you mean by 'better state' and better for whom? The most astounding thing about the outcome of this election was that Boris seems to have got his majority from the very people who were put out of work by Margaret Thatcher in favour of privatisation during her war against the unions. People such as yourself (no insult) are very well done by the Tories, but they have created a middle class of such scale that it is unsustainable when it all goes tits up. Anyone who doesn't have their first foot on the ladder might as well forget it. There are a lot of middle class 25 year olds still living with their parents now. They cannot afford the rent which their parents expect from their second homes.

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    2. Personally I'd rather a sound economy that another disastrous 'Winter of Discontent'; so it seems do the majority of the Brits.

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    3. If you're out of a job, or sleeping out on the streets, every winter is one of discontent, I would imagine.

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    4. I'm not sure the middle class have done all that well out of it, being the only sector keeping the country afloat, squeezed on all sides for the taxes that the poor and the very rich don't pay. Boris is no friend of the middle class.

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    5. Good point. The middle classes are now the cows to be milked - milked by everyone. Nobody cares about the homeless because they produce no income.

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  2. The Liberal Democrat's would have over seventy seats if there was PR like here in Ireland and Mr Johnson would have an hung Parliament. Time to make it an even playing field?

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    1. My only fear about PR is that nothing would get done. I can't see government by committee (legislatory) working.

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  3. You've more or less summed it up nicely Tom.

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  5. Do leopards (or liars) ever change their spots? Boris' new friends among the working or jobless class may be disappointed. He careth not a toss about them, all he cares about is his posh mates and being PM.

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    1. Every time a new Prime Minister is elected, they begin to see everything in terms of their legacy. They don't want to be the one who made things worse, but they do deals with outsiders before they get voted in and as soon as decently possible, payback time is up.

      Any good things which Tony Blair achieved when in office have been overshadowed by his legacy of the Iraq war and WMD, and we are still seeing the consequences of that every day.

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