Sunday 21 July 2013

THIS WILL BE A GOOD TIME TO HIDE BAD NEWS (AND FOR CAMERON TO ESCAPE THE LYNTON CROSBY EFFECT)

I've just read John Humphries' column over at Yougov on the subject of THE baby, which, I read, is due at any time now. 

Apparently the Indian population is more interested in the fact that a monarch will be born than the Brits are. Humphries asks what the public thinks of the child and its future...and at the time when I read the piece, there were no responses!.

So, I'm in the majority...it's all a matter of indifference to me too. 

And no matter what any of us thinks, these people will do what they have done for centuries...live high on the hog at our expense.

There will, of course be rejoicing up and down the land. 

We will know about this because Mr Cameron will tell us that there is, and in case he looks as if he's being a bit socialist and egalitarian, Mr Miliband will echo his feelings...then Cleggy will say something about it too in case it looks like he's not been thought important enough to have an opinion. 

Even our own First Minister Alex Salmond will say something nice about the baby as I'm sure will other heads of government over the British Isles and the Commonwealth and the world.

It will receive presents from presidents, kings, dictators and murderers and tyrants, (friends of its grandfather and great grandmother), and it will receive presents from poor people who can barely afford to eat.

In the meantime more people will be thrown on the street because we can't afford to build enough houses of the right kind for them, and the ideologically driven UK government thinks it can get more votes from the right wing leaning southern English public by making fok homeless rather than finding them suitable accommodation; NHS England, which has just spent a billion pounds getting itself ready for sale (under the strangest choice for a cabinet minister in the history of cabinet ministers), will sink farther into a mire of uncaring, money grubbing incompetence; education will become even less effective and more expensive in most of the UK; more people will die of lung cancer because the tobacco companies own the government (or at least its advisor); and the railways will fall farther behind those of small African dictatorships for want of proper management and the armed forces will be left without proper rations and equipment in order to save money although we shall still have a nuclear deterrent and more admirals than boats.

Such is life in Britain. Fur coat and no knickers. 

(It's a thought though that the Tories, who are so against immigration of any kind, have had to bring in an Australian to advise them on how to get reelected and a Canadian to run their banking. The usual measure for allowing non EU citizens into the country to work is that there is no one else that can do the job. A sad reflection on education here then.)

21 comments:

  1. My feelings on this shameful family are not new. I really can't stand any unelected head of state bollocks. The fact that my mixed race son can dream of being president of Ghana someday but not the country where he was born is a disgrace and something that we can all be ashamed about.

    I read somewhere that the moment this child is born it will cost the tax payer 2 million a year straight away with security , nannies (not one but two) and all the other shit. It is shocking that we can find money for this but not disabled people with an bedroom for vital equipment. It's also shocking that Salmond is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't but I will be mighty pissed off if the Scottish Government buy a gift for this child when children are starving in Scotland.

    Cameron will no doubt bury bad news, lobbying coming to mind, trident being the other or his total lack of ability to change anything in europe for inglish.

    Pisses me off.

    Bruce

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  2. 2 million a year... and the rest I would say, Bruce.

    I'd like the Scottish government, if it feels it has to give a gift, to do it in the form of something which can be named after the child, but for the good of Scotland.

    The Prince Wayne food bank in Edinburgh, or something.....

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  3. A courteous card for the couples newborn in an unstamped envelope as we are to wee and poor.

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    1. We'll have to get used to no stamps because we are too wee and poor and stupid to actually make them, despite having invented them.

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    2. "We'll have to get used to no stamps because we are too wee and poor and stupid to actually make them, despite having invented them."

      I disagree Tris. We will be able to make them but not post them since we won't have the post office ;-)

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  4. You cant beat wee Queen Bess II

    Bless her, she deserves a better family. Guess you can't choose your who your family is!

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    1. I think, Dean, she would be more popular if she told the more distant ones to get out and get a job.

      If she then scaled back the number of palaces that they have for their use, the gold coaches and a lot of the pomp, it would work better for me.

      The it would be nice if she remembered that it is only in England and Wales that she is the second Elizabeth. In Australia, New Zealand Canada, and Scotland to mention but a few, there has never been a Liz before.

      They are their own worst enemies. Everyone else is getting less money and they have had a rise... tut tut. Not good PR.

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  5. Tris

    To celebrate the start of labour , not the real useless party , but the painful kind I have gotten my rant in early.

    http://grumpyscottishman.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/unelected-head-of-state/

    Bruce

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    1. Complain early and complain often Bruce :)

      I've commented.... only to be told quite rudely by wordpress that "you are posting to quickly, slow down".

      So I hope the comment has turned up...

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  6. totally agree with this entire post: Fur coat & nae knickers encompasses it entirely.

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    1. Certainly does... Olympics we had to do charities out of money to afford; Wars that mean we have the worst roads, rail and internet connections in Western Europe, and nuclear weapons that are paid for at the expense of decent health and education...

      The place stinks, but it's quite nice for the aristos, would be aristos, and the royalty

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  7. if you want to avoid the coverage, the Guardian website has a republican button at the top to get a baby free version of the news.

    As for a gift for the wean, well his parents' wedding gift from Glasgow was a hospice, so a food bank or a welfare rights officer post at CAB? Or what about some tents for the homeless.

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    1. What a good idea for the Guardian.

      We need to be looking out for items of news that Cameron doesn't want us to know about.

      The Prince (ss) (Add posh name as appropriate) Welfare Rights Officer. I like it.

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  8. I hope it's a 10 pound hedgehog.
    Born backwards.

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  9. Only kidding, but it would be hilarious if it was black! :-)
    Mind you, we would never find that out.

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    1. That's why they are having it in a private hospital. Private staff can be guaranteed not to let on if there is something untoward...

      I don't think it's likely to be black though. In fairness to Kate Middleton there has never been any mention of her being a tart. She left that to her mother-in-law, father in law, and of course the infamous princess Maggie (hic).

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  10. This'll be hard to avoid and it'll be painfully in everyone's face.

    Frankie Boyle tweeted (cos I have twitter now, amen't I modern?) something along the lines of the baby not being born until Mandela died so he could be reincarnated into the new body.

    Its all bullshit, wall to wall British nationalism, from Froome the Kenyan straight on to a royal fucking baby.

    I'm angry already.

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  11. Hey hey hey Pa... chill... Modern people with Twitter don't get angry... or do they?

    It's not really a royal baby anyway. Mrs Princess is as common as me, only her Pa made more money than mine, and Willie is at least half aristo half royal, but even the Queen is all royal. Her mum was just a younger daughter of a Scottish earl.

    So I guess the sprog will have red blood like the rest of us...

    The Middleton upper working class blood will out.

    One will probably be a chav, govena, doesn't one know!

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