I'm sure I said this a few years ago where politics seemed to have gone off the rails a bit. There were quite a few dodgy things going on and it all seemed a little... off.
Well. Here we are just a few years later and it looks like World Politics has turned into SOAP (For our younger viewers, a piss-take on soap operas of the time with a cracking intro showing the absurdity of it all).
We have Labour who are more left now than ever, but within that left 'bit' we have people who are madly left, really left, fairly left, not sure what left is any more getting into arguments with people in the Labour Party who are far-right while the centrists look around in bewilderment. We've got people on the right siding with leftist and we've got people on the left siding with the far-right parties.
We've got new far-right parties that got swelled with the left and the right and anyone that just wanted to join in, that got pretty much disbanded when everyone got what they wanted. Except no one was really sure exactly what it was they wanted and now most of us aren't even sure what we didn't want.
We've got politicians lying to the media, the media lying to the public, the owners of mass media stirring it up and pushing an agenda and then we've got foreign powers making and breaking deals, starting trade wars, gaining allies, gaining enemies and generally fucking about.
We've got leaders of nations all over the place that seem to want something different probably getting machinated by shadowy domestic and commercial powers with all the money and, it seems, that for these people - there is never enough, but what they are sure about is that people working for them don't particularly deserve any of it.
You've got sick people in wheel chairs getting told to walk by DWP employees who seem to think they are Jesus and you've got terminally ill patients getting told to "Bloody well get off their fat backsides, stop whining and stop sponging and get to fucking work". Shortly before they die.
We've got Libraries, Fire Stations, Police Stations, Emergency Wards getting shut down. We've got social and Public services going down the pan and yet we're told by Billionaire dickheads via their editors that everything is better today than it's ever been and it's believed by people that presumably don't register the real world. We then get people saying how marvellous it will be to get 'back to the days of Downtown Abbey' because look how marvellous it all was then. Rees-Mogg and his ilk think that a little starvation is just the trick to make people 'know their place'.
We've got characters like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and Donald Trump who you can't even make fun of - Spitting Image would have been scratching their heads and then just replaying actual scenes that really happened. Gone are the days when you can make things up.
You've got actors and singers with more political powers than politicians, who get to decide who can and cannot speak on given issues and then you've got the world heating up while the equvalent of Sadams mate stand there waving there arms saying 'Nothing to see here' - just like the lad in Police Story while the firework factory goes to hell behind him.
You've got left fighting right, left fighting left, right fighting right, people ignoring the liberals who used to be mates with the right. You've got billionaires telling the poor how things are how to vote - which they do. You've got Remain fighting Leave. You've got the North fighting the South. You've got Cities fighting other Cities. You've got the Rural Areas fighting with the Urban areas. You've got the rich fighting the poor. You've got the old fighting the young. You've got religions and none religions fighting with each other and you've got anger and resentment everywhere.
Welcome to Tory world 2018.