The Talking Clock: By Jove! LibDumDum Minister's awfully nice and polite request to Evil Empire as Europe crashes and burns

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Thursday, 30 September 2010

By Jove! LibDumDum Minister's awfully nice and polite request to Evil Empire as Europe crashes and burns

From 101 Things You Will Never Hear From A LibDumDum*, comes this listing at #28:

Any criticism of the European Empire, to which LibDumDum leader Nick Clegg is a sworn loyalist and dedicant.

Tearing up the rule book on conduct for LibDumDums today is Vince Cable. While being terribly and awfully polite, old bean, he has - By Jove! - made an outspoken criticism of the Evil European Empire, nonetheless.

Demonstrating an ability to read the newspapers, Cable has warned that the people of Europe will not accept massive increases in EU budgets at a time when national budgets are being slashed, unemployment is on the rise, and the people are forced to suffer for events outside of their control.

The Daily Express quotes Cable as saying to MEPS: "I have to sound the alarm here: at a time when national governments, including mine, are having to make very painful cuts in public spending, no one can understand why the European budget is not being subjected to the same discipline. There is a big backlash on the way, not only in the UK. Can I plead with you to tackle this issue sensibly? Any sense that the European Parliament and European Commission are not acutely sensitive to this issue will be seriously damaging."

Awfully, terribly polite and prim and proper of you, Vince.

How about: "Give the people their money and their national sovereignty back, you thieving, cheating, undemocratic bunch of controlling totalitarian dictators"..?

So, what could have provoked this totally unexpected polite little squeak - welcome nonetheless - from a LibDumDum, of all people..?

Could it be the riots and protests taking place all over Europe?

Take away people's democratic voice and take away their jobs... guess what happens?

Not in Britain, obviously. We're all too busy watching The X Factor.

But now you know why New Labour brought in all of the police state apparatus. It was never about protecting us from the invented bogeyman of Islamist extremists.

It was - in our opinion - always about protecting the corrupt politicians from the anger of we, the people.

As we say, nothing to worry about in Britain. One member of the public got angry about taxpayers being fleeced by MPs with dodgy expense claims and they went onto BBC's Question Time and said the word: "Poppycock!" (or something) to the assembled politicians. And despite us all being fleeced and robbed blind by bogus expense claims, the utterance of 'poppycock' or similar such words is the new form of British anger.

Meanwhile, on this week's X Factor...

* We obviously made the title 101 Things You Will Never Hear From A LibDumDum up. It was a cheap line for the purposes of satire.

1 comments:

opit2 October 2010 08:36
"Now you know why New Labour brought in all of the police state apparatus. It was never about protecting us from the invented bogeyman of Islamist extremists.

It was - in our opinion - always about protecting the corrupt politicians from the anger of we, the people.

Easy to predict with all the air let out of the various inflationary bubbles which made a mockery of cost accounting, fixed assets, regulation, securutues, pensions, and so much more.
The people are revolting. Pshaw. There's no need to get personal.
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