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		<title>Week 30: The Market are Spooked!, Matt Green</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roderick Benson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ok so we are now entering yet another period of complete chaos in the UK government as Truss was forced to sack her chancellor after Kwarteng released a non-costed mini budget that crashed the pound and the UK economy. Thankfully, the comedians have been at work trying to soften the pain for the long-suffering average [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok so we are now entering yet another period of complete chaos in the UK government as Truss was forced to sack her chancellor after Kwarteng released a non-costed mini budget that crashed the pound and the UK economy. Thankfully, the comedians have been at work trying to soften the pain for the long-suffering average Brit who have witnessed the health service collapse and their standard of livings fall as the government continues to pursue policies that only help the very wealthiest in society.</p>
<p>Yet it has also been a very busy week in UK politics. On the 19<sup>th</sup> of October Suella Braverman resigned as home secretary because she broke the ministerial code. Two days after that, on the 21<sup>st</sup>, Liz Truss was also forced to resign after her whole premiership was in tatters, there was bullying in the Commons as MPs were forced through the &#8220;yes&#8221; corridor in the voting chamber of the House of Commons on a crucial fracking vote, and Labour gained a 30 point lead over the Conservative party. In short, the whole country is in  a right state because of a group of far right greedy, narcissistic, unintelligent, misanthropic, Dunning-Kruger-type individuals who care about as much for the common folk of the UK as I do for a garden slug. <b>Sad and very difficult times indeed for the UK</b>.</p>
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		<title>Week 15: Boris Johnson&#8217;s Resignation Speech, Matt Green</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roderick Benson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been often observed by historians that the Brits, unlike many other cultures (here&#8217;s looking at you France 😀), never appear to rise up in full mutiny against their government. Of course British politicians and too many of the British public assume this is because the British government has been generally more functional than [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been often observed by historians that the Brits, unlike many other cultures (here&#8217;s looking at you France <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />), never appear to rise up in full mutiny against their government. Of course British politicians and too many of the British public assume this is because the British government has been generally more functional than most other ruling institutions and a lot less corrupt. This believe however is surely utter fantasy and this fantasy has been aptly demonstrated by the utter chaos of the last 3 years with Britain being subject to one of the most dreadful governments in living memory, lead by a narcissistic liar who is up to his ears in corruption and enabled by a complicit cabinet of individuals who appear not to possess anything resembling a functioning conscience or talent.</p>
<p>So what is the secret to the lack of British ire against a ruling class that often makes their lives miserable and, in more extreme circumstances, even costs them their very lives (UK covid death statistics combined with people now dying at home because they can&#8217;t get an ambulance to them in time to save their lives)? My conjecture is it is British comedy that takes the mick out of its immoral ruling class. I wonder if such mockery, by British comedians, acts as some sort of national safety valve that lessens the rightful anger that many Brits feels against those who treat them as serfs that deserve nothing more than to be exploited.</p>
<p><p>If my conjecture is correct, then it should be talents like Matt Green that receive a knighthood from de Feffel Johnson rather than non-entities such as David Frost whose greatest claim to fame is achieving a form of &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s cat&#8221; Brexit where his own deal is simultaneously his unique achievement yet one that now needs complete reneging through a parliamentary bill which, if acted upon, amounts to breaking international law.</p>
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