And there you all were thinking this was going to be about vampires, sorry to disappoint but it’s far more down to earth.
‘Er indoors had an aunt who never stopped talking. I always thought she had not only kissed but perhaps raped the Blarney Stone. One day we met this aunt and she began to explain that she had met a woman in the launderette who did nothing but talk and then proceeded to relate what she had said for about 45 minutes or perhaps even more. I was hard pressed to keep a straight face because she said all this with no sense of irony and as though she herself scarcely uttered a word.
My mum had a sister who also never sopped gabbling, a donkey somewhere was missing one of its hind legs. One day, as luck would have it, these two aunts met and afterwards both had the same opinion, don’t like that woman she talks too much.
Now such women are common enough but why oh why don’t people see in themselves what others see in them. This syndrome is not confined to women and chattering.
For those more famous than the man in the street this is usually characterised as hypocrisy and anyone with two eyes can see the massive amount of hypocrisy in the political arena across the entire world.
Nowhere is this more personified than in the person of Rodney Spanner. He claims the British people gave him a mandate, no they didn’t, they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the Tories who had failed miserably. Not perhaps as miserably as he himself is failing. He says he is doing what the British people want but that is exactly the opposite of what we want. We want to see the back of him and his shitshow of a government, even if it means Bodybags Burnham gets his turn at the helm. I was going to say he couldn’t be worse but the best we can hope for is more of the same. Could Spanner’s exit bless us with a few weeks of David cLammy in Number 10, I fear it could.
Now that the rogue Morgan McSweeney has rocked up again and is now advising our useless PM once more we are getting hints that if Burnham wins in Makerfield, and that is far from sure, Rodney Spanner will call a General Election. This is being described as a vindictive move but I suspect that Rodney is convinced he is the reason Labour won in 2024 and he does not want to hand that legacy over to anybody else. You could easily describe this as short sighted but I say bring it on, a GE will result in Labour being wiped out whoever the leader is.
I wonder if there is a syndrome that explains this type of behaviour where someone doesn’t see what everybody else does. We have Dunning-Kruger for thicker among us who are convinced they are a genius but I don’t know if some enterprising types have investigated what I just described. On the other hand it could all be a figment of my imagination.
As a postscript to this, Bodybags Burnham produces a daily video diary. On a recent one he said people have asked why he has had no celebrity endorsements to show. So he produced Alan Partridge, aka Steve Coogan, as his celebrity endorser. Oh dear, that is scraping the Z list.
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