Ho-hum. Opening of Parliament today, I see from the spectacle on TV. Isn’t this a summation of everything that’s wrong with politics? A grotesquely opulent, debauched waste of taxpayers’ money just to mark the mundane event of our overpaid politicians’ expensve holidays being officially over, and the reading of a speech by our outdated, superfluous, pointless, costly ‘monarch’ that she didn’t even bloody well write herself.
In a word: disgusting. I say this every year.
And worse than disgusting, fucking childish. Here we have a fellow given the nom de plume of Black Rod. Dressed as Widow Twanky, he goes up to the doors of the house, which, of course, ‘symbolically’ slams the door in his face (as he represents the monarchy) to declare their independence.
Well, great. Just great. I’m sure we’re all glad to know our taxes contribute to this ridiculous pantomime. But I think I’d be a lot happier if they just tried a bit harder to do the fucking job they’re overpaid for rather than blowing cash on kids’ games of dress-up such as this.
In the studio during this televising of this, oddly enough, a couple of kids were interviewed for their opinions. They were all for it, apparently, and one of them stressed how it’s ‘traditional’—that undying sacred cow of tradition, i.e. a long-established activity that therefore has somehow proved its value simply by being around for a long time (other examples, of course, historically, being slavery and oppression of black people/women/etc). Nice to see the kids of today taking such an enlightened view of such spurious ideas. No, really.
I wanna be ashamed of today’s youth, so many of them lack rebellion. Then again, they must be so scared. The scarring that could go on from the input of interglobal news communications at imprinting stage is possibly akin to some vicous death squad camp. If I’m overestimating the damage to kids today, then surely its going this way. Something should be done to protect them from the ghosts of lizard people past.
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