Our Culture's Going Down the Plug-Hole

Here in the good old Dis-United Kingdom, where the superficial now reigns supreme and the substance has long since evaporated, three things have happened recently that demonstrate the depths of cultural decay to which we have now descended.
On our small allotment in South Gloucestershire - which is, unhappily, not immune to the cultural decay taking place all over the country - Nosher and I have been discussing the latest events in this sorry saga.
'A teacher who felt hounded out of his job by loutish pupils shouting abuse at him because of his baldness has lost his case at the High Court' Nosher said as we poured hot soup from our thermos flasks.
It was a sunny day, but with a bitterly cold wind, and we'd retreated into Nosher's shed, were our old deckchairs provided a little comfort amongst the spider's webs and dusty shelves lined with old seed packets.
'Apparently the judge did not consider baldness to be a disability' Nosher continued 'but went on to say that if the teacher had been gay he'd have won his case. What kind of justice is that?'
'It's actually a disguised form of injustice' I replied 'because the real issue is why and how the conduct of the loutish pupils was allowed to proceed for so long without effective sanctions being taken against them, so that the teacher felt obliged to seek redress in the courts under a law designed to punish discrimination which, unfortunately, does not include bald people.'
'So the message that has gone out to all the loutish pupils in our schools is that they can get away with disrespectful behaviour and harass teachers with impunity' said Nosher 'one wonders why any sane person would want to teach in our schools.'
We sipped our soup in silence for a few moments.
'Then there is the case of that yob who blew his nose on his hand and then wiped the slimy result on the back of Dave 'The People's Toff' Cameron during a walkabout' I said 'even when apprehended by a PCSO the little lout was smirking and sniggering, clearly not bothered at all by the possible consequences. Apparently the yob's mother, when told of the incident, told reporters that he was a nice boy. If a yob can get away with this sort of behaviour in front of the media, when his victim was the leader of the official opposition in this country, what do the idiots who lead us think yobs are getting away with in respect of their conduct to us ordinary citizens? The answer is that they are terrorising the ordinary decent people of this country, who know there is no legal redress because our so-called justice system does not support the ordinary decent citizen any more.'
Nosher nodded.
'I regret to have to admit that you're right' he said 'and when an ordinary decent citizen is set upon by the thugs who roam our streets with impunity, and dares to lift a finger in self-defence, the public perception nowadays appears to be that the police and CPS are more likely to spend their time seeking a way of prosecuting the victim while clever defence lawyers are looking for excuses to get the offender off. That's the moral sewer we now have to live in.'
'And finally' I continued ' there's the sight of our great leader, Gordon the Moron, sycophantically toadying up to the Americans. He has had meetings in Washington with McCain, Obama, and Clinton, and finally met George W. Bush and held a news conference on the White House lawn. Brown's visit was almost universally ignored by the American news media, but he did manage to get on one TV breakfast show, smiling his mechanical smile and thanking the Americans for their contribution to culture. Big Macs and cola? Mind-boggling! This is the behaviour of a man who knows he is a nonentity, and yet so desparately wants to be hailed as a world statesman. And when at the news conference Gordon the Moron went on about Britain having a 'special relationship' with the US it was enough to make me want to vomit. The simple fact is that the UK is now America's little poodle - no wonder Bush looked happy to confirm this "special relationship"!'
'I guess the only person who doesn't realise what an idiot he is is Gordon the Moron himself' said Nosher 'but then he thinks he's on a mission to save the world, although I fear it will be at our expense.'
'It's already at our expense!' I retorted 'without all this nonsense about Britain "punching above her weight" (which all the main parties go on about) we would be living with very low taxes and much better services to the ordinary people of this country. And we might be able to do something to save our once great English (and British) culture from disappearing down the plug-hole.'
Nosher gave me one of his 'you're so stupid' looks.
'Too late, it's already in the sewer' he said.
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