Monday 16 January 2012

A Rare Political Rant.

Riots on the streets, strikes, demonstrations, public sector workers being forced to take a pay cut, pensioners having their winter fuel allowance reduced, arts bodies and charities going out of existence due to funding cuts, rural transport all but disappearing... And all down to the much trumpeted need to reduce the budget deficit. We are, as Cameron infamously said, ‘all in this together.’

So now a Cabinet Minister says that the taxpayer should foot the bill to provide the Queen with a new Royal Yacht to mark her diamond jubilee. I expect there will be questions in the House. I can see the prospect of one senior Tory MP imploding. (That, at least, would be good news.) And I do hope the dear old Queen will have the good judgement to decline the gift and help Mr Gove disappear up his own rectum. Maybe he will find there the world in which he truly belongs.

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