Sunday 5 August 2012

THOUGHTS ON M.Ps.


      Today politicians are not held in very high esteem, to put it mildly, but has it ever been different? They are seen for what they are, a bunch of self-centred, arrogant, duplicitous, power hungry careerists and yes men to the corporate world. Those who remember Glasgow's Year of Culture may have read Tom Leonard's The Moderate Member's Monologue, still relevant and worth a read.
The following are the opening lines:
Christ. Thank fuck I'm and M.P.  I mean naw, really. Majin been poor, eh. Majin been really poor. Majin no huvin a job ur sumthin. Ur been wan a they YTS people. Christ Almighty. Fuck me. Majin been under 25 eh. Fuckin hell. Aw jesus. Majin been really poor an a wummin ur sumhn, an yir man's left yi. (shakes his head) Majin livn ina council house. Christ. Ahv nuthn against council houses minji. loat a ma constituents live in thim. Aye. A wuz broat up in a council house. Thir aw right council houses. Yi ever seen a council house?---
(YTS was the 90's workfare.)
 
       Though I doubt that many of our present crop of M.Ps. were brought up in a council house. At the moment they seem to be a plague of millionaires.

ann arky's home.

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