Schadenfreude: the most exquisite of humours

It is a delicious irony that when the tipper truck filled with ordure was finally emptied yesterday during the budget speech most of it seems to have fallen on the il-Lib-non-Dems.  The Tories had nothing to lose; if they had forced single mums out of their council flats at the points of bayonets everyone would have shrugged and said it was just the Tories being Tories.  Similarly, when everyone blames Labour for spending money like a one-eyed psychotic (ooops, I've just remembered!) then again we all shrug and mutter no change there, then.  Hitherto, the il-Lib-non-Dems have always hidden away in no man's land whilst the shot and shell passed overhead, but not today.  Happily, they are getting it in the neck from all quarters, and the irony arises from the fact that they find themselves in this uncomfortable position because what they have been agitating about for years has finally come to pass, a hung parliament with them holding the balance.  What a wise man it was who first said be careful of what you wish for!

 

Comments

[ortega]

Maybe you'll like this:

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/06/12/literary-saturday-the-napoleonic-wars/#more-4922

[David Duff]

Thanks, Ortega, I have a copy which I enjoyed immensely. I believe the author's background is in news reporting which perhaps explains his excellent forthright telling of the story. For anyone seeking a one volume narrative of the Napoleonic era you could not do better than Robert Harvey's book.