I’ve
not felt like posting anything this year – not since last year’s half-arsed
Christmas card. There’s a combination of
reasons. First, as I’ve had occasion to
say before, there comes a point when what’s going on is beyond satire. The nonsense about parties/business meetings
is a case in point.
But the
second reason is more significant. This government
is so incredibly appalling that I’ve found it impossible to say anything even remotely
amusing about anything they’ve done. Incompetent, dishonest, corrupt, uncaring,
heartless, self-centred…I probably could go on.
And what’s made it worse is the fact that until very recently, despite
all the above, they’ve remained ahead in the polls, and the news programmes
still manage to find people prepared to say ‘Boris is awful but we still love
him.’
I could
just about face a cartoon about his personal nest-feathering for this year’s
card but that’s about all. (Actually,
after I’d done this one, I thought of a better: Bojo and Carrie in their
drawing room admiring their gold wall-paper, with the caption: “Deck the walls
with others’ lolly”).
Ah well. Do we dare to hope that next year might not
be quite as fucking awful as the last couple?