Tuesday 19 July 2016

Who created the chaos?

There’s an old joke about three people arguing about which is the oldest profession.  The engineer said, “Just look at the universe.  It’s a masterpiece of engineering – god is obviously an engineer.”  The architect disagreed, saying, “The bible says that god created order out of chaos; that requires planning.  God must be an architect.”  The politician trumped both of them with one simple question – “Ah, but who do you think created the chaos in the first place?”
What brought that to mind this week was the Labour leadership contest.  There’s something more than a little Orwellian about the two challengers being so totally at odds about which of them is the ‘unity’ candidate; but every time I hear that word ‘unity’ being spoken by a Labour MP, the question which crosses my mind is simply, “Ah, but who created the disunity in the first place?”

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