{"id":11482,"date":"2022-08-13T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T10:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2022-08-13T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:13:58","slug":"the-living-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=11482","title":{"rendered":"The living dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

While the interminable Conservative Party leadership contest between the 2 tenth-rate rivals, one Mary Elizabeth Truss and rich boy Rishi Sunak, draws tediously on, with government administration seeming to have almost ceased despite drought, rampant inflation, surging energy prices (with the promise of higher prices to come<\/a>. Ed.<\/em>) and the outgoing party-time alleged prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is hardly anywhere to be seen, not even for a photo opportunity as he dives into the dressing-up box to indulge his inner Mr Benn<\/a>, a new phrase has been coined – zombie government<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

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A still from the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

As Wikipedia states<\/a>: “A zombie (Haitian French: zombi<\/em>, Haitian Creole: zonbi<\/em>) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.” The English word zombie<\/em> was first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the romantic poet Robert Southey, in the form of zombi<\/em>. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the word’s origin as West African and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi<\/em> (god) and zumbi<\/em> or nzumbi<\/em> (fetish).<\/p>\r\n

Comparing Conservative Party ministers to reanimated corpses is disingenuous, as the latter have far more compassion.<\/p>\r\n

All the crises mentioned in the first paragraph all seem to be coming to a head and combining during what is traditionally known in Britain as the silly season<\/a><\/em>, which occurs during the long parliamentary summer recess, when, having no – or very little – politics to report, the newspapers and other media resort to more frivolous and lightweight items of ‘news<\/em>‘.\r\n<\/p>

However, all is not yet lost.<\/p>\r\n

Yesterday the Metro reported that the notoriously work-shy Johnson (remember those missed COBRA meetings at the start of the pandemic<\/a>? Ed.) had actually managed to turn up for a meeting, although the outcomes of the meeting stated to accompany the headline hardly seem to have made the gathering worth the effort of organising and attending.<\/p>\r\n\"Front\r\n

And to think all this will continue until after the closure of the leadership poll for the 160,000 or so Tory Party members at 5pm on Friday 2nd September…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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