The UK government is taking its talking points from third-rate comedians. You can barely get a chuckle anymore with the tired joke template “No one talks about all the things we didn’t screw up.”
Now, with hundreds or even thousands of UK schools facing emergency closure because the government — and specifically Rishi Sunak when he was chancellor of the exchequer — drastically cut the budget for repairing the crumbling concrete that was cheaply put up in the 1950s and 60s that was only supposed to last 30 years, the PM is offended that nobody is talking about all the schools whose roofs haven’t collapsed. He said
There are around 22,000 schools in England and the important thing to know is that we expect that 95% of those schools won’t be impacted by this.
I’m waiting to hear the government focus more attention on all the millions of migrants who haven’t tried to come to the UK — indeed, on the billions of people who haven’t even left their home countries — rather than harping on the tiny percentage who have tried to cross the English Channel in small boats.
Satire is dead.
Common Infirmities 