A Cynical Look At Life In Britain. And The Stiff Upper Lip

March 10, 2010

Adam Lovejoy writes: It can only happen in Britain: the government bankrupts the country to the tune of £2 trillion and no one pretty much says a word. Everyone is too busy, melting their plastic and struggling to pay off their growing debts, to notice such trifles as going bust on a national level.

Very British this, very stiff upper lip. With collagen added.

And how about being taken for a ride by the Labour government and its chums in Brussels with that Lisbon treaty? It just beggars belief that the British people, who have an instinctive revulsion for everything that is linked to the EU, sleepwalked into the trap and allowed Brown&Co to sell them down the river. Who on earth believes that the Lisbon treaty is in any way different from the previous constitution that had been rightly torpedoed by the French and the Dutch? Very few people indeed. So how come then no one objected when Gordon Brown went back on Labour’s promise last year to hold a referendum on any future changes to Britain’s role in the EU? Stiff upper lip again, or simply a case of: ‘I’m not bothered about anything while I’m shoppong and watching the box for hours’.

But it doesn’t end there, oh no. The Bank of England is twisting everybody’s balls, if you pardon the expression, by pumping billions of newly printed money into the economy, to create an impression that the recession is coming to an end, but no one utters a word. The Labour commissars are ruining the country and ripping the economy apart, but it is of no one’s concern. It is enough to have a look at the face of Mervyn King, the BoE’s governor, to see that he’s a cunning fox who keeps his cards close to his chest. He comes up with total drivel about the economy and yet everyone treats his words and forecasts seriously. Even when he says that inflation in Britain is running currently at 1.8 per cent, everyone nodds in agreement. As in, oh Mervyn, he knows things. He’s a banker.

And then there’s Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who gives bankers billions and feels good about it. A couple of months ago Darling (who should chnage his name actually) casually announced that he was going to give the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds another £30 billion – to help them settle into the post-recession environment. Nice and round figure, that £30 billion. Would make any inept bankers happy while the taxpayer take the hit for them.

Was there uproar in Britain when this nasty scheme came to light? No, there was not. In fact, it was greeted in silence. Apart from the sniggering coming from the money men.

Stiff upper lip, eh?

And then there is the war in Afghanistan. Does anyone still believe that the British troops are there to protect the safety of the British people from terrorists? If so, please, can these ten or twelve people visit their respective GPs and ask for strong tranquilisers, to take them all at once and never bother us again. The British troops are dying in Afghanistan because the US wants them to be there. Their presence has got nothing to do with battling terrorism. And it has nothing to do with building a democracy in a land where the biggest industry is the drug trade and all children want to become poppy growers, drug dealers, corrupt cops or warlords when they grow up. And yet, despite the blindingly obvious, the nation’s unelected leader, PM Brown, tells everyone that Britain cannot pull out its boys from Afghanistan because it would not look right. No one says anything. Stiff upper lips kicks in again.

But there is more, much more. The former British Prime Minister and war criminal on the loose, Tony Blair, lies through his teeth at the Iraq war inquiry and no one says anything. The inquiry itself is a joke, staffed by Labour’s stooges, and still not a word from anyone. PM Brown comes to the same inquiry and tells porkies, promoting himself. One general objects, but the rest stay silent.

Stiff upper lip triumphs all the time.

And it gets worse: the British media, headed by the BBC, sells itself to Labour and yet no one seems to mind. Who cares that the general election is just a few weeks away, let the hacks have their fun and be biased towards Brown&Co.

It’s called keeping a stiff upper lip while having been kicked in the balls. Several times.

What would it take for that siffness to disappear? Revelation that all the Labour cabinet is working for the KGB? But is has already been established that the Labour party was conspiring with the old Soviet Union to influence the elections in Britain and topple Margaret Thatcher. It has also been revealed that some of the Labour high ranking officials were very chummy with the Soviets and even provided then with information. It is not difficult to imagine that the KGB must have had a wonderful understanding with the Labour lot. Which sort of implies that some of the people in charge now might have been mixing with the wrong crowd.

It seems the stiffness in the upper lip slipped downwards, to the lower lip, and then spread upwards to the brain. No response, nothing doing. Better watch the box and see the wonderful X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing, two shows that would have not become hits even in Mongolia and Vietnam, where they watch everything.

I wonder, I just wonder what it would take for the stiffness of the upper lip to disappear?

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