HANDSHAKE HERESY: Labour's Consent Cult Crushes Britain's Grip on Civility
https://twitter.com/stevenwills72/status/1973337506507874678
In a nation where the stiff upper lip has long shielded us from the world's chaos, Labour's latest edict at their Liverpool powwow transforms the humble handshake—that bedrock of British etiquette since Elizabethan times, symbolising honesty and trust in everything from sealing Magna Carta to brokering pub pacts from Land's End to John o' Groats—into a suspect act of uninvited intrusion. Imagine delegates locked in cringing stasis, hands dangling like accused felons, stammering "May I?" before venturing a clasp in solidarity's name, while Churchill's spectral shade spins in fury at this smothering drivel from a party that preens as the working man's mate yet flinches from a firm grip. It's beyond daft; it's a gut-punch to Britain's ingrained civility, where the handshake isn't mere ritual but a wordless booster of rapport and rapport's diminisher of distrust—now supplanted by this consent crusade's paranoid pageant, where every skin graze mandates a rehearsed capitulation, breeding the very social stiffness and eroded confidence it claims to cure. Labour unmasks itself here as the real oddballs in society's circus—detached dogmatists torching the effortless, tactile ties that bind us humans, all while the overwhelming majority of sociable souls yearn simply to shake on it and crack on with life's unscripted dance.
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Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter: To the Dogs or Whoever
"Joan never cared about the in-betweens
Combed her hair with a blade did the Maid of Orleans
Said Christ walked on water, we can wade through the war
You don't need to tell me who the fire is for
Oh bring me a love that can sweeten the sword
A boat that can love the rocks or the shore
The love of an iceberg reaching out for the wreck
Can you love me like the crosses love the nape of the neck?..."
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