I am reminded of a friend of mine, in fact he was my Best Man. How I love to torment him over his political hypocrisy. In fact such is the scale of his glaring internal contradiction, that he told me some years ago that he will never discuss politics with me ever again. One wonders how an intelligent adult could corner themselves quite so royally.
His parents met at art-school in the early 60s, I believe both were typically north London ‘middle middle-class’, and born into Labour voting households. Later he became an accountant, and she started an interior design company. Wind forward 30 years, and they were living in a capacious apartment in South Kensington. Summers were spent at a huge rambling old stone farmhouse in Provence (the lounge is maybe 800ft2, and open right up to the eaves 3 storeys up). And yet despite all of their later wealth and success, they still voted Labour. Their son, my friend, is a director at a Swiss bank. His lifestyle goes along in parallel with that. But, despite all of that he is still a through and through Labour voter. He despises Tory values but is making his riches under them. He could emigrate and work abroad, to perhaps somewhere with a more ‘flat’ and redistributionist society, but he has never had any desire to ‘vote his professed convictions’ with his feet. In fact at one point he was eyeing up doing quite the reverse, relocating somewhere with super-low taxes and about as far away from a flat society as might be imagined. It was at that point that the pong and p***-taking reached such a dizzying height, that he declared henceforth discussion of his politics verboten.
You say ‘The milk was a joke’. So you mean you said it in jest? Perhaps you should consider posting with the text in two colours, one for ‘this bit is serious’, and ‘this bit is a joke’, as at present it is rather confusing.
You write ‘Make a single mother with 2 children of different sexes and 1 on the way live in a two bedroom flat or pay the extra knowing she'll have to uproot her children again when they can no longer share.’ I’m unclear who you’re suggesting is ‘making’ her circumstances, beyond this single-mother soon to have three children?
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It is a truism that the more subtle the humour (and the quality of humour correlates 100% with subtlety IMHO) the harder it is to convey it over the www without decking it our with 'Emos'.
