From Elsewhere: Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ rethought in a very tongue in cheek way.

 

I was trolling around the socials recently and came across a post from a guy calling himself Peter North. He has made a proposal for a policy that would in his opinion make Britain better. Of course it needs to be said that this proposal is not very high on the scale of either seriousness nor sensibleness but it will in many cause some amusement.

Mr North said:

“Y’know, if ever you did want a fascist dictator to fix things once and for all, you could do no worse than me. I would employ many of the same tactics as the Nazis, only I wouldn’t go after Jews or ethnic minorities.

I would focus exclusively on white middle class liberals. The final solution to every major problem. I’d send army trucks to every Waitrose and M&S food hall to round them all up. I’d send my goons round to raid the HQ’s of Oxfam, the Green Party and the Lib Dems to confiscate their membership/donor lists – and then herd them all into a ghetto.

Unlike Hitler, though, I wouldn’t bother with a Holocaust. I’d simply give them everything they want. I’d build a twenty foot border wall around Brighton and chuck them all in there. Our own version of Gaza. We’ll tell them it’s a fifteen minute neighbourhood. They won’t question it and they’ll do exactly as they’re told. We won’t even need guards. In case any of them escape the round up we won’t need little yellow stars to identify them. We’ll just pretend there’s another Covid pandemic and we’ll just watch out for who’s wearing a mask in their cars.

Once secured, I’d ensure they were fed nothing but climate change propaganda to discourage them from breeding, and give free gender reassignment surgery to anyone who wants it. Middle class liberals volunteering to self-sterilise is not something we should oppose. They’ll all die out within a generation. Sure, it is Nazi style eugenics, but it’s nothing the Guardian hasn’t been pushing on them for the last twenty years. It’s all about marketing.

We could even do it on the cheap. We sell them a version of Soylent Green, marketed as “zero food miles” carbon-neutral protein bars – so, as in real life, they end up eating themselves. If successful we roll it out to Bath, Bristol, Harrogate, Cheltenham and York. So long as the cattle trucks are electric and have solar panels on the roofs, they won’t suspect a thing. We’ll just tell them it’s the latest in Net Zero public transport. Once we’ve eliminated this parasitic scourge from our lands, I’ll step down because everything else will self-correct within a year or two. “

Mr North has come up with an interesting idea and is very reminiscent of the ‘B’ Ark from Hitchikers. I was pleased also to see that the crime and commie afflicted shithole that is Bristol has also got a mention although it ‘s a bit unfair on Cheltenham or York.

2 Comments on "From Elsewhere: Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ rethought in a very tongue in cheek way."

  1. Stonyground | June 23, 2023 at 6:25 pm |

    Yes it is tongue in cheek and not meant to be taken seriously but suggests a few interesting thought experiments.

    Part of the problem is that such people are full of shit. Back in the days of the cold war I knew people who were in favour of communism. My thought was always that the world is a big enough place, leave us that like it to our free market capitalist society with its horrible inequalities and you go off to live in the Eastern European workers paradise of your choice. The reasoning behind not wanting to do so seemed to be that life in such places was a bit shit just now but would be much better than here at sometime in the future and that the British version of communism would be totally brilliant.

    If you were to create an oil free zone for the benefit of the Just Stop Oil crew, how many of them would go and live in it once they realised the stark reality of what living without oil would actually involve? I suppose it would highlight their ignorance and hypocrisy.

    • Fahrenheit211 | June 25, 2023 at 8:36 am |

      I remember such people back in the day, people who adored and worshiped Communism but would never think of moving to a Communist country. Good point about the JSO types. They’d run like hell if presented with the opportunity to live like a medieval peasant without oil.

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