{"id":52032,"date":"2019-10-26T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52032"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:54:19","slug":"a-look-into-yet-another-dystopian-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/10\/26\/a-look-into-yet-another-dystopian-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A look into yet another dystopian future"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time, it’s Tom Slater<\/a> looking at the parliamentary situation well into the future:<\/p>\n

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The year is 2051. An 87-year-old Boris Johnson is still prime minister, commanding a majority of minus 200 in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

The taxidermied remains of Jeremy Corbyn looks lairily at him each day from across the chamber.<\/p>\n

The Liberal Independent Group for Anti-Democratic Change, formed by breakaway elements of the other parties in the great merger of 2020, is by far the largest bloc.<\/p>\n

For some reason it has never found the “right time” to assert control of the Commons. But by some convoluted means it has successfully delayed some 187 attempts to hold a General Election.<\/p>\n

The UK is still a member of the European Union. But no one else is. Long since collapsed, it is now just a portacabin outside the Mini-Europe miniature park in Brussels.<\/p>\n

It employs one man, whose job it is to sweep up, sort the post, and respond to the United Kingdom’s periodic requests for an extension to Article 50.<\/p>\n

Somehow, his expenses are exorbitant.<\/p>\n

They say making predictions these days is a mug’s game. But I\u2019m pretty sure that’s where we’re headed. Or rather, given the Kafkaesque turn British politics has taken, nothing could surprise me now.<\/p>\n

PM Boris Johnson has offered the opposition the election they claim to have been craving, again, and they appear set to reject it, again.<\/p>\n

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has indicated he will back a General Election once the European Union grants an extension to Article 50. But the EU is holding off on making that decision until MPs vote on the election.<\/p>\n

You can see the problem here. But at least it will keep half of Corbyn’s parliamentary party happy, who are apparently dead-set against an election and would rather we go for a second Brexit referendum first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time, it’s Tom Slater looking at the parliamentary situation well into the future: The year is 2051. An 87-year-old Boris Johnson is still prime minister, commanding a majority of minus 200 in the House of Commons. The taxidermied remains of Jeremy Corbyn looks lairily at him each day from across the chamber. The Liberal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,57,53],"tags":[1293,337,1090,458,463,114],"class_list":["post-52032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-humour","category-politics","tag-borisjohnson","tag-eu","tag-jeremycorbyn","tag-parliament","tag-parody","tag-separatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dxe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52033,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52032\/revisions\/52033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}