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BROKEN BRITAIN
UK Parliamentarians Take Time Off Work to Tell Voters How Hard They Work
Westminster through the looking-glass. I’m mad, he’s mad, we’re all mad here…
The Financial Times today reports that Members of Parliament belonging to the beleaguered governing Conservative party have been told they can play hooky from the trivial business of actually being in parliament, to spend more time in their home constituencies… explaining to voters how hard they are working to represent their interests in parliament. Without actually being there.
The faultless display of logic is sure to win over a doubting electorate who are only very slightly disgruntled at the fact that the Tory government (now on its fourth failed attempt to find a competent Prime Minister in four years) has so far crashed the economy, destroyed export markets, spent billions on useless medical equipment bought from their mates and no-questions-asked grants to fraudsters, then lied about having boozy parties at the PM’s own residence while the rest of the country were grieving their dead in tragic Covid solitude. Including the actual sodding queen, whom apparently most Conservative voters were really quite keen on.
Oh, and let the water companies they privatised fill…
