Chatocracy
\nby cricketjeff on October 4, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nI’ve hatched a plan that simply can’t go wrong,
\nSo brilliant I’m sure I’ll get a gong,
\nWe should have done things this way all along,
\nWe’ll let the TV pundits run the show!<\/p>\n
Prime ministers (and real men with blood)
\nMay worry that a notion is a dud,
\nBut “TV man” gets rightness in a flood —
\nThey never have to think, they ALWAYS know.<\/p>\n
These demigods and celebrants who sneer,
\nFind opaque arguments completely clear,
\nWe mortal clods having nothing left to fear,
\nWhen has-beens, hacks and hoots get into flow.<\/p>\n
You know these fools, you’ve heard them on the News.
\nThey’re there each day to share their weighty views,
\nOr crush some hard-pressed sap beneath their shoes,
\nThe dogs with whom the ten men went to mow.<\/p>\n
They concentrate a soundbite at a time,
\nAnd know a changing mind’s a proof of crime,
\nThe ultimate depositors of slime:-
\nWe ought to bomb the greenhouse where they grow<\/p>\n
Portillo, Paxman, Toynbee and the rest,
\nMust be this ancient nation’s shining best,
\nAnd that’s another rant got off my chest,
\nI finished so it’s time for you to go!<\/p>\n
Goodnight All [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/grin.gif]
\n Author notes
\nI may have mildly exploded at the television watching Newsnight tonight,
\nhearing Paxman yet again completely fail to listen to the people he was
\ninterviewing, Polly Toynbee spouting utter bilge and Michael Portillo’s name
\nhad the right meter …<\/p>\n
I am sure all you non-Brits have your own range of grossly overpaid total non-
\nentities to tell you haw the world should be run, if not, I volunteer for the
\njob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chatocracy by cricketjeff on October 4, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I’ve hatched a plan that simply can’t go wrong, So brilliant I’m sure I’ll get a gong, We should have done things this way all along, We’ll let the TV pundits run the show! Prime ministers (and real men with blood) May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4777\/revisions\/6731"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}