It struck me today how politics is just a performance: there is no real substance to it other than finding ever more mechanisms to extract more money from us.
For instance, we now have the grotesque spectacle of the opposition party now attacking the government about immigration.
Hang on. Weren't the opposition (Tories) in government themselves just months ago? Some of the things that they are challenging the Labour government about happened under the Tory's tenure as government.
I'm more and more convinced that politics in Westminster is a pantomime, with the two main parties just going through the motions. One gets in power and blames the other party and vice-versa when the roles are reversed, with no real substance to the criticism.
It's like they are playing roles on stage, one the baddy, one the hero. Except it's government and opposition. "Boo, hiss, why aren't you doing the thing we want you to do, the thing we didn't do when we were in government?"
If you then see past that, you begin to ask: "who exactly is running the country?". Certainly not the bunch of cretinous actors in Parliament, that's for sure.
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