The Palace of Westminster may be falling down but working there is one of the final few perks MPs have leftThe Palace of Westminster is virtually falling down. It’s riddled with leaks and infested with vermin. Whole toxic sections urgently need to be removed for everyone’s good. After decades of destitute planning and rapid/fast,botched fixes, it’s badly decayed and its going to cost a fortune to put things factual.
I expect your leaden-analogy alarm has already gone off. Lots of people are absolutely thrilled with the old palace’s decrepitude as a metaphor for “our broken politics”. Do you know what I reflect is a really good metaphor for the state of Britain today? It’s people enjoying that metaphor. It’s the tedious satisfaction they derive from likening one building’s need of repair to the decline in public trust suffered by the political system for which it houses key functions; the inwardly delighted wry shake of the head at that late-news-week-political-cartoon quantity of wit and insight. Honestly, and it makes me want to join Isis.
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Source: theguardian.com