Angela for PM – she’s the disaster we need
FREDERICK EDWARD
Somewhat to my embarrassment, I keep finding myself looking at the recent photo of Angela Rayner vaping contentedly on her rubber dinghy.
Fat bulging like marshmallow through her top, descending gently into a beer belly; naff tattoo of an insect on her upper back; huffing on a nicotine dispenser in the moronic modern fashion – she is the perfect emblem of modern Britain.
Comparisons to Vicky Pollard are too easy, as are references to her fecundity and dearth of academic achievement. Besides, the latter is closer to a compliment in these highly-educated-yet-highly-idiotic days, in which we are governed by morons with PPE degrees.
But still, a Catherine the Great or Cleopatra she certainly is not. She is the symptom of a hilariously dysfunctional nation. Or at least, it would be funny, if it weren’t so serious.
Actually, sod it – it is funny. Laughter is the only way to cope.
.Many have posited that Angela is next in line to be Prime Minister. This is generally done so in a voice of incredulous panic, as if finding out that one’s house is scheduled to be dynamited the next day.
I personally think that this – Angela, not the dynamiting – should be encouraged. Not because she would be anything other than catastrophically awful at the role, but that her ascending to the dizzying heights of top political office would be the most fitting reflection of quite how dreadful things have become. To have Angela at the helm eating a Greggs sausage roll and drinking a can of Fanta during a Privy Council meeting would be the veritable icing on the cake.
At that stage, we could finally, perhaps, dispense with the expensive delusion of being a world power. While we have had various silly sods roleplaying as leader of a Very Serious Nation in recent years – notably the slimy lizard creatures of the Blair-Cameron era – this act would be impossible to maintain at such point as Ms Rayner moves into No.10.
And yet the change would not be a material one but instead of perception.
Our decline has been precipitous and accelerating. Having fought two senseless wars – during the course of which we transformed from world creditor to debtor, sent the flower of our youth to slaughter and imposed upon ourselves a range of civilisation neuroses – and having been practically incessantly stupid ever since, we are at best an upper-middling power on a downward trajectory. We are careering straight towards the IMF, cap in hand, unable to cover the cost of living beyond our means.
Other places know it too: I highly doubt that the denizens and leaders of other states look to the United Kingdom as a role model. Each aspect of modern British statecraft has proven disastrous, with only our history serving as a useful model to follow, which accounts for the respect for our legal traditions and, say, the success of nations such as Singapore. No country would found itself on ‘modern British values’, lest it wanted to become an immediate basket case of welfarism and civil strife.
We no longer have the power-projecting capabilities of old nor the moral prestige of times gone by. Our delusions of grandeur have done us great damage in recent years, ranging from our catastrophic interventions in the Middle East – more farce than Flashman – to the absurd notions that, due to whatever greatness was left in Great Britain, we could ignore all lessons of history and reality and create the great modern utopia.
Instead, it is time to realise that we are not the world power we were. Instead, we can be content in being a middling power – say like Denmark, or perhaps Thailand. I cannot think of a downside of this: embracing the status of second-tier power would unburden us from the most costly and destructive of our modern political delusions.
Nobody calls upon the Netherlands to fix the problems of the world, nor do the Dutch imagine that they have the solution to every ill. The Portuguese do not feel it necessary, when some drama kicks off in far-flung regions of the world, to grandstand, tell the locals what to do and to pontificate with a misplaced sense of superiority.
With Angela at the helm the delusions of our power would spontaneously evaporate away. It may kickstart the much overdue reconsideration of our role in the world and the limits of power, or rather force an acknowledgement of them, for much of the disaster of Britain since 1945 has been its inability to accept its secondary status in the world.
Still unready to accept that, we believe we can force reality to our will: the environment will ‘correct’ itself if we use paper straws, Ukraine will be ‘free’ if we prolong that ghastly conflict. We are like the alcoholic who cannot admit that it has a problem. It require some kind of newfound humiliation – the political equivalent of soiling oneself in the fruit & veg aisle of Tesco’s – to make us see the grandiose stupidity of our ways.
So I say, come on Ange – raise a smile! For her to be Prime Minister would be the crazy culmination of many decades of our Kafkaesque politics.
In the long run, it might be the best thing that ever happened to us.
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