Troughers to elect new Speaker

Monday sees the day when the troughers will start the election process for their new speaker. In a scenario reminiscent of George Orwell's Animal Farm, the pigs will choose a new Napoleon to intimidate the other animals and consolidate his power.

Napoleon uses Squealer, the pig who spreads Napoleon's propaganda, to explore the ways in which those in power often use rhetoric and language to twist the truth and gain and maintain social and political control.

Napolean promises in his address to the animals:

"Animal Farm, Animal Farm,
Never through me shalt thou come to harm!"

Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Martin back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.

The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were also comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted for all the candidates.

"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."

Nothing changes, eh.

Westminster Goblin

Sunday 21 June 2009