Yes, yes, I realise that y'all are dying of boredom, too, and that is why, from the kindness of my heart, I have refrained from posting anything for a couple of days and thus adding to your terminal tedium! To be honest, the fact is that I simply could not think of anything worthwhile to write. Even as I tried to compose a comment I could feel my eyelids dropping! So, you ask - er, you did ask, didn't you? - what words of enlightening wisdom have I to offer you today?
Well . . .
Or there again, maybe . . .
Perhaps even . . .
Oh Lord, don't give me strength, just give me an original thought - or better still, three original thoughts!
Well, here's one - I actually have some - notalot! - but some sympathy for the Government! By which I mean the handful of mostly useless politicians who occupy the highest ranks in the cabinet. Yes, they are crap but, before you put the boot in, pause, and ask yourself what you would do? And when you come up with some highly intelligent ideas just pause, and ask yourselves how you would get the glutinous 'blob', aka: the civil non-service, to actually get on and do it? Especially given that vast tracks of the country are ruled by a dire dung-heap of Scots Nats, Welsh wizards and loathsome Labourites!
Having considered that, ask yourself if you would really like to be a cabinet minister? Mind you, the money and the perks are pretty good . . .
Bloody hell Gaffer, you tryin' to get me sacked?!
How many ways are there to say "Don't do something, just stand there"?
I guess I've said them all enough already, there, back to work for me it is, you wrecker, you!
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 10:56
Get an allotment!
Posted by: Backofanenvelope | Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 12:00
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/10/we-should-be-troubled-europes-violent-weekend/
Thuggery will not be stopped by pleading. Peaceful people can't live among anarchists.
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 12:25
The very idea of someone thinking "What would I do?" as a cabinet minister is intrinsically wrong.
Being a cabinet minister is wrong.
The paradox is: you have to use power to destroy power.
So the only thing you could do - i.e. use power - is to disband your department and your job and hand the whole lot back to the tax payer and replace yourself and your department with a negative income tax tweak to the tax formula, so people could go and and buy good value products and services for whatever it was that you were failing to try to produce.
Until that culture, way-of-being, attitude is engendered back into the British people again we are lost. We will continue to lean out of the window on a Thursday night and applaud the department that just massacred 60,000 of us in one quarter, 3x the rate the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine managed in WWII.
Since 1948 the Left Axis has taken control of the media, health, education, and social services industries. The precise tooling to achieve authoritarian control and manipulation of a people.
That Left Axis is a much constituted of blue socialists as the shades of all others. So there is no resistance any more.
Therefore, it's game over now, I'm afraid, Gaffer. No cabinet minister will be heard saying, as Ronnie Reagan did, "In the times we live in, government is the problem, not the solution". Quite to the contrary, in fact, "More of me, my department and the government is the solution" is what the cabinet minister will say - is saying, look at the spending hikes right now and before even Covid took over.
And you encourage this by asking the question "What would you do?", which is like the salesman's "Do you want the red one or the blue one", when what you want and need is neither.
Next stop the Venezuela of Europe for Blighty, Gaffer. In your mind, heart, and soul you know it. But since 1948 - minus one decade - you haven't known how to stop it.
Unbearably sad. My own Father, who showed me the books in that decade, now brain-blind to them.
Tell me, did Shakespeare ever write a tragedy like this?
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 12 June 2020 at 10:32
"Tell me, did Shakespeare ever write a tragedy like this?"
Dufflet, prince of Somersete?
Posted by: The Jannie | Friday, 12 June 2020 at 11:21
Jannie, these days I am more Lear than Hamlet!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 12 June 2020 at 17:55