One of the cruellest, most unbearable things about the modern ruling class, at least in Britain is how
stupid they are. Sure, they know how to rule, or at least, how to get
away with it. When it comes to listing their attributes, our bourgey
overlords, like to list things like refinement and education; nothing
could be further from the truth.
Take Bozo Johnson, yesterday launching
a multi-million pound display of the Olympic rings (a small example,
I know). What do the rings symbolise? According to Johnson they
symbolise the Olympic virtues of, um, chastity, poverty and other
things. This was all, apparently, a joke. Aren’t you glad he’s
taking all in his stride? You would have thought he might be under
some kind of pressure, as the Mayor of London.
Bozo might have just half-remembered
Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius. But then he also might have
remembered the rings are nothing to do with the motto, or any other
virtues. They are symbolic of the peaceful union of humankind across
the five continents... which is nice.
But these are piffling details for the
mayor of the Olympic host city…
In other news, according to Murdoch’s
man in government (aren’t they all?) Jeremy Hunt, the Olympics are
under budget. Yup, that’s £476 million under the £9.3 billion
budget. OK, that’s almost double the original budget but what're you going to do? It makes you wonder what goes on in these people’s heads. Do they
think ‘budget’ means ‘guess’?
Either way, there’s now ample money
to pay the London bus drivers their Olympic bonus. It’s only right
and fair.
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