Gone-ish, Not Before Time...

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This noon we bore witness to the risible, unedifying, and frankly unsavoury spectacle of Doris Pooh's final parliamentary performance at PMQ's today, where he managed to stretch the definitions of showboating and grandstanding to the very limits of semantics, and demonstrated, once and for all, that his grip on reality is and obviously always has been, tenuous at the very least.

One thing I hate about the Conservatives, and Johnson in particular, is their singular, irrational, and cynical approach to the role of government - given that we can honestly consider ourselves to be planted firmly in a 'modern' era, long-divorced from the feudalism of ages past - which can be summarized thus: their approach to the complimentary governmental requirements of taxation & spending.

When Johnson slates the SNP - a frequent personal Aunt Sally of his - for their continued seeking of independence from the Union, he cites the benefit Scotland derives from '... the massive fiscal firepower of the UK...' - neatly demonstrating his and his party's wilful ignorance, or ignoring of, the meaning of the word fiscal itself, the definition of which is: "...relating to government revenue, especially of taxes...". The outgoing leader of the party of 'low taxation' not even understanding the most basic linguistic plank of economics. It's no wonder we're such a bloody pickle.

If a government is reluctant to spend for the good of the public that elects them, from the fruits of the labours of that electorate itself, then wherefore their function vis-à-vis governance? The traditional answer would simply be keeping the hoi polloi in order - after all, we can't have the populace having anything other than a servile relation to the governing power and big business/finance, in the absence of the controlling aristocratic system of old. The fightback against that started with in the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre, and if there are any working-class Tories out there reading this who still believe these people are in any way your true representatives, read your history books and cast this bunch out for good. They've no place in the modern world.

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