I was looking out of the window and saw seven magpies swoop into the cherry tree in the park. I had to sneak into the old Carer\u2019s computer and Google the word for a bunch of magpies. Turns out it could be a \u2019tidings of magpies\u2019 (whatever \u2018tidings\u2019 means), or perhaps a \u2018mob\u2019, which sounds more appropriate as they act like a bunch of gangsters. I must say they are as handsome as me \u2013 I shall call them \u2018tuxedo birds\u2019. However I don\u2019t much like their politics. They were bullying a female blackbird. They reminded me of that mob of Tory MPs in the Commons which cackles and brays (choose your verb, depending on whether you think they are thieving magpies or just donkeys) every time a member of the Opposition tries to speak, especially if they are female. I don\u2019t call that very gentlemanly behaviour. But, on reflection, I guess this is precisely how \u2018gentlemen\u2019 behave. So I\u2019m watching The Carers\u2019 television, right. And there\u2019s these puffed-up \u2018politicians\u2019 pontificating about how austerity is working \u2013 they didn\u2019t specify exactly for whom. Meanwhile, I hear The Carers discussing whether they can continue to afford my dental biscuits. And I\u2019m screaming inside: these \u2018politicians\u2019 are a bunch of amateurs, liars and charlatans, who don\u2019t know shit from Shinola and don\u2019t care diddly-squat about us poor folks down here in South London for whom austerity is definitely working \u2013 we\u2019ve never been closer to abject Victorian poverty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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