Purple Politics by local cartoonist Russ |
It’s easy to forget, as the Conservatives dish out misery,
that Labour are the ones who introduced student tuition fees, failed to rein in
the banks and brought us the public disasters that are Private Finance
Initiatives. There’s not much to choose between, and when it comes to long term
sustainability, both are so obsessed with the idea of economic growth, that
they cannot get to grips with sustainable necessities.
In fiction, there is something called ‘Purple Prose’ and it
isn’t a compliment to label a piece of writing that way. Purple prose is overblown,
and ridiculous. It uses misleading metaphors where a bit of plain speaking
would do a lot better. If you’ve got to call a penis a ‘throbbing manly edifice
of joy’ you’ve got purple prose. If you over describe everything with unnecessary
melodrama, you’ve got purple prose. A lot of words to no good effect. The parallels
between purple prose and purple politics are many: They do not work. They are
not clever. It’s really embarrassing when you run into it. The world would be a
much better place without them.
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