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Emperor's New Clothes Part 9,067
TOPIC: Emperor's New Clothes Part 9,067
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Re:Emperor's New Clothes Part 9,067 13 Years, 5 Months ago
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Breaking news this morning.
A couple are claiming public money to pay for an obscenely expensive wedding and afterwards will continue to fund an even more obscenely expensive life in a huge house through the same public means.
If they were on income support the nation - with the tabloids in the vanguard of the attack -would be baying for blood. Instead the whole nation is going moon eyed over the prospect of this hugely expensive couple - who cost the nation more than any benefit scrounger could in his wildest dreams even begin to imagine getting just the tiniest bit of - getting hitched, even though - given the family history - it probably won't be for very long.
Am I annoyed by all this? Well yes, but possibly not for the reasons you think.
What really fries my ham is the fawning, unreasoning devotion that makes a life on benefits such a stigma in the case of the unemployed but such an easy, uncritical ride when that benefit is the Civil List.
You can call my motivations what you like, and I recognise the possibility that I'm a traitor and disloyal citizen sorry subject.
But at least I hope I also recognise hypocrisy when I see it. And I'm looking at it right now. Excuse me, I think I'll turn this TV off now. A media-free day beckons very temptingly.
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Last Edit: 2010/11/17 07:36 By Locked Out.
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