We’ve all seen the game, three cards, all you have to do is find the queen, how hard can it be?
Easy money.
It’s called a short con, you never stand a chance, everybody there is in on it and they all have their parts to play. A team game with only one objective, get you to put your money down on their shabby little cardboard box. After that it doesn’t matter, it’s like there never was a queen.
I was reminded of it recently when I came across an article on Blue Labour. A little more research turned up this little gem -
“In England we need an English Labour Party, and we need to start a debate about the democratic representation of England, and the issue of English votes for English laws.” -Jonathan Rutherford.
Politicians often share many attributes with the best con artists and it’s often an education to watch them at work. A couple of big names talking up English culture and what not, followed by a carefully orchestrated yet feeble attack on what is described as a ‘dangerous direction’ for the party.
A team game with only one objective, get you to put your mark against their name.
Now that Labour are in opposition it’s obviously their turn to charm the nationalists and I’ll be interested to see if they do as well as the Tories did. The Tories consistently made big statements regarding ‘English Votes on English Laws’ and an ‘English Grand Committee’ but having been in power for sometime now these issues have been consistently shuffled to the bottom of the deck.
It’s like there never was an English Question.
Old Labour, New Labour, Red Labour, Blue Labour, roll up, roll up, everyone’s a winner!
Easy money.
Francis Drake
