Friday 28 April 2017

Time, gentlemen, pur-lease!

Don’t you just wish we could have some new political myths and legends? The one about the Tories being the party of the mega-rich and Labour as the party of the masses is wearing a bit thin, for instance. Whilst the mega-rich pay an enormous share of the nation’s taxes, compared to the sheer numbers of raggedy-arse paupers who don’t pay any tax at all, they’re an insignificant minority in the electoral community.
    Which leaves me wondering why isn’t J. Corbyn the prime minister right now? And why isn’t he as likely to stay in the job as any president-for-life Putin, Assad or Kim Jong-current if he leads a whole army of electorate-dominating, non-tax-paying scroungers?
    In short, who provides all the votes that put the Tories in power from time to time? Maybe we’re supposed to believe that the mega-rich 1% have enormous numbers of staff, say one-half of the electorate, and the staff have to vote Tory as a non-negotiable clause in their contract of employment. Except, that doesn’t explain how Labour ever gets elected.

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