People frequently ask me, when discussing politics, how, if people like Mad Tony and Theresa Mayhem are as bad as I paint them, do they become Prime Minister? How does a creature like Boris the Spider reach such prominence if he is truly an imbecile? Today the whole world is asking the question how could an intelligent and civilised society like America elect the 45? For brevity I will leave the 45 aside and look at the British dilemma, although the answers have many similarities. I have touched on this in the past on previous posts, so please forgive any repetition, but will try to answer with a bit more detail.
The abiding characteristic of British politics is the two-party system. They used to be quite accurately portrayed as 'broad churches' but that ceased to be the case with the election of the Blessed Margaret. Cruella's election marked the moment when the Conservative Party descended into an ideologically driven sect, the moment when British politics became characterised by 'them and us' and that was Thatcher's infamous description of her interpretation of good and bad. She was not called the Iron Lady without reason, and one manifestation of that was the iron control she exerted on her party. Under Thatcher candidates at all levels of the party had to meet her criteria of ideological soundness to the extent that she stopped local party selection panels choosing their own candidates. They were still allowed to choose their candidate for local and national election, but only from lists prepared centrally, all candidates were vetted to ensure they were 'one of us'. This ensured that the Tory Party at Westminster gradually become staffed with public school, Oxbridge clones who had no experience of the real world. All that mattered was background, class, a proper accent and a fanatical devotion to the Great One. This was achieved by weeding out all those in the party who were not 'one of us'. It was a centralisation of power and influence Lenin would have been proud of. It was also quite ruthless. It became quite ridiculous to the extent that we now have one of the stupidest men on the planet as Foreign Secretary, and his rival in the intellectual stakes in charge of Brexit.
But if you are familiar with British politics, I ask you to consider one Jacob Rees Mogg. It beggars belief that this creature could be taken seriously in a pantomime, let alone as a Member of the British Parliament. He stands as the ultimate product of Thatcherite ideology. This person quite genuinely poses as a refugee from a P.G. Wodehouse novel and is seriously a caricature. To say he is quite ridiculous is a complement. He must have spent years practising his accent and his manner of speech and apparently names his children after Popes. He characterises everything that is wrong about the British political system. If we had a genuine representative system of government he could only represent himself, and perhaps the profession of clowns, although he is probably too over the top for them. People like Rees Mogg make a mockery of a democratic system and epitomise the lie that is the Westminster pigsty. He is a real genuine extremist, yet promotes the persona of the calm, levelheaded intellectual, a real man of the people. If he is a man of the people, then I deny being people. The real danger of someone like Rees Mogg is that he is genuinely being considered as a future leader of the Tory Party, and therefore a potential Prime Minister. This takes us beyond parody, and shows us how dangerous the two-party system has become to our nation.
However, Thatcher's style of Party management was copied assiduously by Mad Tony, thus, by the time Thatcher and the Mad One had left office they had purged their respective parties of any talent that may have lurked there. Anyone with talent and an independence of spirit were targeted as threats to the Great Leaders and were purged. For example, the party of labour was successfully purged of its trade union sponsored MPs who were replaced by lawyers, bankers and public school Oxbridge graduates who stepped straight out of Oxbridge and into parliament under an identical form of central party selection list. Today Labour is staffed with people who hate trades unions and working people. That is why there was such resistance to Jeremy Corbyn and his supposed extreme left wingism. Under Mad Tony there was no significant distinction between a Labour or a Tory MP, even with respect to ideology and it is these same people who compose the totally unrepresentative Parliamentary Labour Party.
As a result, we have the two major parties in the UK, the parties of government, staffed with people who range from the mediocre to the completely useless who are in office, not as a result of talent and ability, but because of background and nepotism. If you follow British politics consider the antics of the Spider in Russia this week. Playing the fool in public he was described by Russian television as 'odious'. I frequently remind you how he is usually described as highly intelligent, but ask you to consider if an intelligent person would persistently conduct him/herself in the manner that this odious buffoon does? No, Boris is not intelligent, he is the archetype of the British class system, a halfwit who has advanced because of background. That is British politics, that is the underlying tragedy of Brexit and why the UK is being increasingly considered as a joke. If the UK is a joke, it is because it's political system of a two-party system buttressed by first-past-the-post voting is not fit for purpose resulting in our represention by a bunch of clowns and halfwits. You have been warned
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Doktor Kommirat
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