🤡📖🏛️Politics delivered another masterclass this week.
A minister appeared on television to reassure the nation about a defence plan.
The plan, we were told, would make us all feel much better.
Excellent news.
Then came the awkward question.
“Have you seen the plan?”
“No.”
A small crack appeared in reality.
But confidence remained high.
Apparently the public should be reassured by a document that the minister promoting it had never actually read.
The interview continued.
“Has John Healey seen the plan?”
“Of course. He worked on it.”
At this point viewers assumed things could only improve.
They were wrong.
“So the person who saw the plan resigned…”
“Yes.”
“…and the person who hasn’t seen the plan thinks it’s fantastic?”
Long pause.
Somewhere in Britain a million kettles boiled simultaneously.
It was the perfect summary of modern politics.
The people who write the plans leave.
The people who haven’t read the plans defend them.
And the public is expected to applaud.
Imagine buying a second-hand car.
“Is it reliable?”
“Absolutely.”
“Have you driven it?”
“No.”
“Has anybody driven it?”
“Yes.”
“What did they think?”
“They quit.”
“Right…”
Yet somehow Westminster still wonders why public trust is disappearing faster than free biscuits at a committee meeting.
🔥Challenges🔥
Would you trust a plan being sold by someone who hasn’t read it?
Or is blind faith now an official government policy?
💬 Tell us in the comments.
The best comments will feature in the next issue of the magazine.
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