Kamikwasi, Librium Liz and the great British joke factory

Unfortunately, the joke may be on the British people. Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

The British joke factory runs on politicians’ blindness to their comedic aspects. Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz are the factory’s two most recent manufactures. They refer to two people whose positions at least would render them ripe for comedic send-up, if not their actions and attitudes.

Remember, satire and parody have long run alongside contemporary politics, showing up grandiose gesture, grandiloquent language, great-man-or-woman cosplay etc. In ancient times, there was Horace and Aristophanes. Today, there are stand-up comics, cartoonists and the Twitterati, all toiling away in the great joke factories, all engaged in the noble and seriously important job of reminding politicians they are really quite absurd. Or that we see you as you really are.

So, to Kamikwasi.

The UK is behaving a bit like an emerging market turning itself into a submerging market — Larry Summers

Kamikwasi, of course, be…