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    Political Truths (All Is Not What It Seems)
    Political Truths (All Is Not What It Seems)
    Political Truths (All Is Not What It Seems)
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    Political Truths (All Is Not What It Seems)

    By Greg Tuck

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    As an observer of politics, it is easy to see that nothing ever really changes. Behind the smoke and mirrors of whatever party is in power the mantra is still the same. It is an adversarial system of government with adverse results for the public. There is a lot of ranting and raving, but it is all theatre and at times you have to wonder who is paying for such bad actors who keep on losing the plot. Then you realise that it is we, the taxpayers, who have to foot the bill as punishment for elevating these people (mainly older white men) to the top of the ballot paper that did not have the names of the best and brightest listed on it. Out of all this reflection on what happens in parliament and government, where all is not what it seems, several truths stand out. This is a collection of my learned political truths that I have written over the years. I believe that they are all original and I hope they entertain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Tuck
    Release dateMay 5, 2020
    ISBN9780463378731
    Political Truths (All Is Not What It Seems)
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    Greg Tuck

    I am a former primary teacher and principal, landscape designer and gardener and now a full time author living in Gippsland in the state of Victoria in Australia. Although I write mainly fictional novels, I regularly contribute to political blogs and have letters regularly published in local and Victorian newspapers. I write parodies of songs and am in the process of writing music for the large number of poems that I have written.

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      Political Truths (All Is Not What It Seems) - Greg Tuck

      Political Truths

      (All is Not What it Seems)

      By Greg Tuck

      © 2020

      Can I get a degree which allows me to say Do you want fries with that? far more eloquently.

      Obviously, the word plebiscite has two meanings. It depends on whether you choose the dictionary from the shelf on the far right or not.

      Is the leader patting himself on the back or is he just checking as he has seen the empty cutlery drawer?

      The inspirations for two of the biggest religions in the world met in prayer in heaven.

      Allah we should not be praised, one said

      Jesus Christ, I know. Look what the world is doing to itself, the other replied.

      We both spoke of the same things; of peace and love and tolerance, the first responded.

      Our words have been twisted and the world is doomed, the second sighed.

      A tiny diminutive figure waddled up to them and the two bowed in acknowledgement to the leader of the only true religion.

      True is this, the figure spoke softly. Fucked badly it up you have.

      Who says the leader hasn’t a prayer? Now I lay me down to sleep I pray to God my job I’ll keep.

      A unicorn is just a pretentious old nag.

      The general

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