Political Rumblings. Charles Roberts
“Good morning Prime Minister, the Taoiseach of Ireland is on line two for you.” “Who?” “The Prime Minister of Ireland, Sir.” “Good morning Fergal, how are things over there in Ireland……? What’s that……? Oh I know the feeling old man…… I seem to be unpopular as well, and I don’t know why….. I mean we’ve done popular things, but the peasants still hate me…. I mean we’ve raise taxes and cut benefits, that’s what they asked for, well strictly speaking they didn’t ask for their taxes to be raised, but we sort of promised it ….. What’s that….? Go to war….! No I don’t think so old man…. Yes I know that it can be popular with the peasants, but we’ve had two Prime Ministers who did just that. One was so popular that she got re-elected, the other was thrown out and called a war ...