BBC, Quango, Bench, All In Need Of A Tuesday
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Proto-Illiberal Rightist believes the institutions need defending from the institutions, the courts from the courts, and the BBC from itself, and is willing to be, as he puts it, a little robust. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Policy Exchange and The Times.
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- Has explained, at length, that he is not illiberal, just unsentimental.
- Refers to the BBC as the captured broadcaster.
- Holds any university with a humanities department is structurally a soft adversary.
- Maintains a fantasy in which the Charity Commission audits everyone he dislikes.
- Refers to NGOs as the deep state in cardigans.
- Treats any judge who rules against him as a sort of cosplay.
- Maintains a binder titled institutions in need of robust reform.
- Refers to the legal profession as the ancient priesthood we may need to reform.
- Holds any planning law older than him is suspicious until proven loyal.
- Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to a shake-up.
- Refers to the Bank of England as a polite rival.
- Treats any quango not aligned with his project as an opportunity for sunset.
- Maintains a soft spot for the phrase democratic accountability with selective application.
- Refers to mainstream media as the legacy media with a small chuckle.
- Holds any system of checks should be checked, by him.
- Maintains a fantasy in which the Civil Service is reorganised over a long weekend.
- Refers to academic freedom as the polite concept that, regrettably, requires renovation.
- Treats any judge defending free speech, but only for his side, as a moral hero.
- Has explained he is not authoritarian, he is corrective.
- Believes the cure for the country is fundamentally a really decisive Tuesday.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meet-up with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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Somewhere someone’s sending this to their council with no message. The silence means everything.
My dad said it should be required reading before anyone works in London government. He’s right but that would end all London service.