Narratives in Real Life

Sometimes the most interesting of narratives happen in real life and these days we often - jokingly or seriously - comment on how long it will take to have a film written. Now, it might not be as exciting as 9/11 or Appollo 13, WW2 or any such big event....but the House of Lords giving a public slap to the Government yesterday and blocking the Working Tex Credit changes is something of significance.

There will no doubt be copious political comment on this, but I like what it says as a piece of Drama, and how it can expose the patronising narrative that the Government spews on a daily basis. That they should be angry about the Lords weilding their power in such a way is hilariously misguided! After all, flying in the face of all evidence presented, most public opinion, even the basis of humanity, the Government were going to put into place a system that would have lliterally plummetted more people into abject poverty. FACT. How many - not so sure? Were we subject to hyperbole from both sides? Absolutely. But first and foremost, what we saw again was the sheer dishonesty of the leader and the party, to such an extent that it is becoming more offensive to think of how utterly stupid and gullible they assume we all are. They so-called leaders (who are NOT elected in our system of governance...but that is another matter) absolutely and categorically stated that they would NOT reduce tax credits in this way ahead of the election. Now, in less than a year they have to tried to. So you can be pretty sure that when David Camerson stood in front of that Camera, was asked by Dimbleby a direct question, he knew he was lying when he replied (just like Tony Blair knew he was lying when he confirmed he KNEW of the WMDs). Nevertheless, the Government went ahead with it anyway. Or they tried. And now we have an interesting situation where the most privileged in society...our LORDS... have come down on the side of the truly "common" man and prevented the Government from plunging some of the lowest income people (who are also some of the hardest WORKING families) into abject poverty... ...sounds a lot like King Richard stamping on the evil Sheriff of Nottingham in support of Robin Hood. In fact, that is a scene I would quite like to stage. Sean Connery can be King Richard; David Cameron can be Nottingham and George Osborne Guy of Gisborne, and Kevin Costener can reprise his role as the legend Robin Hood himself. It is hialrious for the Goverment to suddenly compain about the lack of "elected" Lords when they themselves are unelected. Besides the fact that a poxy 25% of voters even mistakenly let the CONservatives back in, we as a public do not get to vote or elect the Leader or the Cabinet who allegedly represent us. So, "unelected" is a little "pot-kettle-black". Above all, though, I think the Lords should be thanked and praised for standing up to the Goverment and quite simply saying: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS...this stupid tax..." and even though it is rare for the Lords to ever be recognised or understood in what they do, this time, their desrve a toast (albeit from our cheap supermarket Lemonade as the Lords raise their tax-payer funded Champers!). So I say...Good on you Lords! What a decision. What an act of nobility. And above all, what a corker of a narrative you have just thrown into British politics and life. ​Can't wait for the film......

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