I had a fantasy, many years ago, that I’d switch on the
telly at six o’clock, the credits would roll, and Reginald Bosanquet would
announce “Good evening, here is the News at Six. There isn’t any. Nothing of any importance has happened
today. Good evening.*” And then we’d get a rerun of an old episode
of The Good Life** instead.
I wish the same thing would happen to politics occasionally,
or even frequently. Politicians, quite
naturally, see it as their role to change things. After all, if nothing needed to be changed,
they’d be out of a job: and the prime purpose of being a politician, as for any
job, is to stay in it.
I’m not suggesting that there aren’t things that need changing
– I could offer up quite a little list of legislation that could usefully be
created or, even better, destroyed – but every so often, we could do with a
rest. I don’t know about you, but I struggle
to keep up with what is or isn’t legal as it is, without a dozen or so new laws
coming along every week.
So I rather hope that the House of Lords will have another
crack. The politicians can then usefully
get themselves bogged down in the aforementioned constitutional crisis, shrinking
their already wilting bubble in on itself, while the rest of us can just get on
with real life for a while.
*Come to think of it,
Reggie may well have done that once, given his track record, but if so I missed
it
** Preferably the one
where Barbara forgets to put her bra on, but …
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