Reminds me of Mitchell and Webb's Nazi sketch. Or 'The Thick of It'.
Humour is a good way to go in times of despair. I am half Hungarian and thy are amongst the masters of gallows-humour. This is a good response to your soul-searching article earlier this week perhaps re. where to turn and what to do in dark times. Not an answer, but a way to stay sane.
Steady on that one Tom. This has legs. As a writer myself and member of BECTU, I know far too well that nobody should be ripped off for their creation.
A humorous summary which is probably closer to the truth than most of us would realise. The Western world has become a kleptocracy. Our respective establishments with the politicians and corporations see the rest of us as cash cows to be squeezed, zombies to tug the forelock and then when we cease to be of use to be assisted towards suicide. The UK has become a moral free zone, a cesspit of hypocrisy, corruption, kleptocracy, war mongering, monocultural economics and an MSM that spins it all as some triumphal great society. I don't need to tell anyone here that few people anywhere outside of the corrupt elite that govern believe a word of any it. What we are told and what we see are more and more two very different things.
Stopping my Pip will put me and my wife in serious financial straits. We are just about managing now. So all of this isn't just academic for me, it's very personal. I realised one thing, and that is that a powerful clique of people who do these things, punish the poor, steal wealth, dodge tax and etc do not care less for any of us, but the only way they can be shamed and embarrassed is by pointing this out in clear and certain terms. Starmer is wobbling, not because he or anyone of them personally care about the financial distress, chaos, suffering, hardship, going hungry and/or cold and possible deaths such decisions will incur, but because we know they don't care and we can point this out again and again. That goes for all of them, politicians, Royals, big business, those in power or the gatekeepers of any kind happy to watch others suffer the consequences of a greedy kleptocratic elite shift wealth to themselves whilst blaming immigrants, the poor, the disabled and long term ill health like me and playing the white working class off against other poor people whomever they might be. I feel I know have a duty to write about this, not angrily or hysterically, just clearly and honestly.
I am also a practising Christian too, and in my own little way, for what it's worth, I wish to reclaim some of the territory many fake Christians in power, particularly the right wing variety who use faith as some kind of get-out-jail-free card or the very opposite of what true faith should be, use to justify their own extremely selfish desires.
Like millions of people I am sickened by the greed and hypocrisy of the powerful and establishment of the UK who have been waging war on the majority since Thatcher. Like an Old Testament prophet who does not want to challenge but must, that is what I will do from time to time. I would suggest that we all speak the truth to power and more so speak the truth about power. I have no choice. My health is exacerbated by the whole fear surrounding my future. Sorry for waffling on.
Told with a certain amount of humour, but oh, so plausible.
Yep. You just described how "free" market capitalism works.
hard to satirise Britain today. This is too true!
Priceless and frighteningly accurate. This needs to be done again as a YouTube sketch with actors, it will go viral.
I'd love to see it. Anyone who wanted to do it could just have it. I don't care a damn about copyright.
Reminds me of Mitchell and Webb's Nazi sketch. Or 'The Thick of It'.
Humour is a good way to go in times of despair. I am half Hungarian and thy are amongst the masters of gallows-humour. This is a good response to your soul-searching article earlier this week perhaps re. where to turn and what to do in dark times. Not an answer, but a way to stay sane.
Steady on that one Tom. This has legs. As a writer myself and member of BECTU, I know far too well that nobody should be ripped off for their creation.
No promises but I'll have a word with a DOP I work with next week.
A humorous summary which is probably closer to the truth than most of us would realise. The Western world has become a kleptocracy. Our respective establishments with the politicians and corporations see the rest of us as cash cows to be squeezed, zombies to tug the forelock and then when we cease to be of use to be assisted towards suicide. The UK has become a moral free zone, a cesspit of hypocrisy, corruption, kleptocracy, war mongering, monocultural economics and an MSM that spins it all as some triumphal great society. I don't need to tell anyone here that few people anywhere outside of the corrupt elite that govern believe a word of any it. What we are told and what we see are more and more two very different things.
Stopping my Pip will put me and my wife in serious financial straits. We are just about managing now. So all of this isn't just academic for me, it's very personal. I realised one thing, and that is that a powerful clique of people who do these things, punish the poor, steal wealth, dodge tax and etc do not care less for any of us, but the only way they can be shamed and embarrassed is by pointing this out in clear and certain terms. Starmer is wobbling, not because he or anyone of them personally care about the financial distress, chaos, suffering, hardship, going hungry and/or cold and possible deaths such decisions will incur, but because we know they don't care and we can point this out again and again. That goes for all of them, politicians, Royals, big business, those in power or the gatekeepers of any kind happy to watch others suffer the consequences of a greedy kleptocratic elite shift wealth to themselves whilst blaming immigrants, the poor, the disabled and long term ill health like me and playing the white working class off against other poor people whomever they might be. I feel I know have a duty to write about this, not angrily or hysterically, just clearly and honestly.
I am also a practising Christian too, and in my own little way, for what it's worth, I wish to reclaim some of the territory many fake Christians in power, particularly the right wing variety who use faith as some kind of get-out-jail-free card or the very opposite of what true faith should be, use to justify their own extremely selfish desires.
Like millions of people I am sickened by the greed and hypocrisy of the powerful and establishment of the UK who have been waging war on the majority since Thatcher. Like an Old Testament prophet who does not want to challenge but must, that is what I will do from time to time. I would suggest that we all speak the truth to power and more so speak the truth about power. I have no choice. My health is exacerbated by the whole fear surrounding my future. Sorry for waffling on.