This week has, for me, seen the cult of celebrity that has invidiously pervaded our society like a rot reach a new all time low.
The economy is not just stagnant but actually in decline, while, in spite of our ‘Central Committee’ of a so called government languishing in a state of denial, we are all struggling under a mountain of debt unprecedented in any of our lifetimes. The said government is in an apparent total meltdown with disgraced ministers either resigning, (jumping before they are pushed) or announcing that they won’t stand at the next election. The protectionist German government is busy buying General Motors jobs, luring Fiat or the Canadian company Magna away from Vauxhall with loan guarantees.Meanwhile a diminutive French ego maniac is seeking to revise our history by claiming that the 65th anniversary of the Normandy D-Day landings were only important enough to warrant the invitation of the ‘cool’ American president and his wife, while the Queen, and Britain in general was supernumerary . And that was only on the Monday of this week.
While all this is happening what is our great leader doing? Is he marshalling all of our resources to skilfully guide us through these turbulent times? Is he using all of our accumulated skills as a nation to work through these crises toward a solution?
The answer is he is seeking to gain a cheap headline and stay in the good books of the great British unwashed by phoning the producers of Britain’s Got Talent to enquire about the mental state of the loosing contestant.
Can we assume that because she is Scottish Gordo now realises that every vote is precious and she might be the feather that will tip the balance of the election he is too scared to call? Maybe he thinks that his fellow Picts are the only ones who will continue to support the Westminster subsidy he has maintained, at the expense of the English who pay the bulk of the taxes to the United Kingdom treasury. Or, perhaps he realises that the mass of the Mirror, Sun and Daily Star readers don’t recognise the news stories I spoke of earlier and so wants them to believe that by submitting to the lowest common denominator of celebrity he is in fact the leader we all want? Is it just possible that if I therefore express myself in the language of masses he might just understand? If so then my messages is:
“Push off you one eyed Scottish idiot. You’ve done a crap job and we want the chance to vote for somebody else”.
