The ability to laugh even at our own expense is unique. No matter where I have traveled in the world it is the sense of humour that makes the only sense. Matt the cartoonist will not object to this complimentary plagiarism but his comment in the above on happenings at Westminster says it all.
Maggie Smith who died on Friday said that ‘ Glen Close was not an actress but an address ‘. Lord Alli the donor of clothes, spectacles, pop concert tickets , stay overs is some may say is a back street benefactor.
For the man in the street this farce is dismissed as continuing corruption in power but the sad thing is that those in Government can’t buy their own stuff. That’s the joke. Rather a back hander , a handout in a brown envelope or whatever colour suits you. Maggie was the archetypal wit and her one liners sank many a person.
Harold Wilson an earlier Labour Prime Minister got into a scandal with a mackintosh manufacturer from Leeds, filling his pipe with freebies. Michael Foot another Labour PM in waiting wore a Donkey jacket to the Cenotaph Memorial showing us all up. Even that other Maggie had her stay over giftings so the hypocrisy is not limited to one side of the fence. Generosity is still not a crime in Britain. Taking away the winter fuel allowance of £140 is and so does Rosie or not so Rosie , Labour MP for Canterbury who resigned today over the matter.
Talking of Canterbury it’s an excellent opportunity for the Church of England to make the winter payment £1.5 billion payment rather than repatriate at same expense the wrongs of Slavery centuries ago. Now that would get the popularity back in the pulpit and something Jesus would have done .
You have to laugh for if you don’t your going to cry that’s for sure. Enjoy your Sunday.
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