Photo courtesy of Big Issue.
A wee follow up on my previous post, "Milking It", with a further look at how our "democracy" works. A picture of the merry-go-round of the rich, privileged and pampered parasites that gorge on the wealth created by you and I, the ordinary citizen. If you have any illusions that this system is there to benefit you and I, you are naive in the extreme, we are being screwed on a daily basis and we tolerate this situation. Thanks Loam for the link.
THIS SEPTIC ISLE – by Mike Cashman, inspired by the work of William Shakespeare
This sorry state of things, this septic isle,
This den of crony works, this dreadful mess,
This other pigsty, this great fest’ring pile,
This coven of the knaves that won’t confess.
I speak not of the land and people fine,
But government that’s in place by deceit
That’s had so many reasons to resign
But sent integrity into retreat.
This open flouting of all moral rules
For profit and backhanders they call fees,
This treatment of us as so many fools
They think won’t see the wickedness and sleaze,
Or else will brush it off as “All act thus”,
And tolerate wrongdoing with no qualms,
As p’litical manoeuvres on a bus,
Ignoring all the consequential harms.
This focus just on how much cash they hoard,
With ethical good standards in the bin;
That Ministerial code that’s just ignored,
With blind eye simply turned on any sin.
Determination that there’ll be no lessons learned;
This attitude that rules are not for them,
That if you break the rules they’re overturned,
That no wrongdoing will they e’er condemn.
This land with better past, this much loved land,
That had good reputation far and wide,
Is now leased out, by dirty oft bribed hand,
Like to a criminal that does not hide.
Britain, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Is falling fast and left its soul behind
Contaminated now; as PPE
Has dodgy deals and crony contract signed.
That Britain, with ambitions global claimed,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
And never will the Government be blamed
For damage they have done to wealth and health;
Integrity’s another empty shelf.
….with thanks and apologies to William Shakespeare.
Most ordinary people who have taken an interest in what our political ballerinas get up, have always accepted the they have at some point in their political career walked the corridors of corruption. Every politician leaves their parliamentary "career" much richer than they when they entered, and I mean MUCH richer. Can you and I say that? However since bumbling Boris, the dangerous buffoon engineered his power grab, it appears that the Tory party now wears sleazy, corruption and greed as badges of honour, openly pinning them to their lapels with pride. I suppose drunk with power they now display their disgust and disrespect for the peasants with open joviality.
The latest case of ex-minister MP Owen Paterson stuffing his pockets with fat fees from firms for which he was lobbying. This is blatantly breaking the rules so he was to be suspended. Being a buddy of Bumbling Boris and some of his pocket lining cronies, they decided that they couldn't allow sleaze to spoil their mate' career, so they simple changed the rules, hey presto, he is back in business, according to his two-faced friends, his character intact. When will we ever learn.
