It's been a busy week for George Osborne., ex-MP, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, ex-editor of the Evening Standard, and now the co-host of a 'frenemies' podcast with ex-Labour MP Ed balls.
Before we continue, let's not forget that Osborne is responsible for possibly the most disastrous and harmful government 'policy' in British history - austerity. In the early 2010s, on coming into office, Chancellor Osborne made huge cuts in government spending. Council budgets were cut by 40-50%, so was the Department of Justice, and the list goes on and on. It has been estimated that at least 330,000 excess deaths were caused by Osborne's austerity.
So this week Osborne got married, but before the wedding a 'poison pen' email, making allegations about his conduct, was sent to some of his guests the night before his wedding. On the wedding day, it was reported that a Just Stop Oil (JSO) protester threw orange confetti on him and his new wife. JSO have said it wasn't organised by them.
But let's get the key point of this post. For many years, the hard right have been blabbering about the 'blob' - a powerful alliance of leftie teachers, academics and civil servants who are the 'real power' behind the political scenes, seeking to thwart conservatives and their policies at every turn. The blob is the real 'establishment'.
This, of course, is total nonsense. Hard right Tory governments have been in power for 30 of the past 43 yeas, and most of their policies were followed by New Labour. But they are right about the blob, the establishment, it does exist, but it just happens to consist of hard right conservatives - politicians, newspaper proprietors, journalists, oligarchs, the Tufton Street mob, the list goes on and on.
And this was all beautifully illustrated in Osborne's wedding guest list because some key members of the real blob were there, and it's a long list - Ed balls, Yvette Cooper, David Cameron, Michael Gove, Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis (both Ex-BBC), and Nick Robinson of the BBC radio flagship news programme the Today programme.
So, if you want to meet the blob who control the UK, get yourself invited to the wedding of a prominent member like George Osborne. It's that simple.
