This is the personal blog of Ian Ker, who was Councillor for the South Ward of the Town of Vincent from 1995 to 2009. I have been a resident of this area since 1985. This blog was originally conceived as a way of letting residents of Vincent know what I have been doing and sharing thoughts on important issues. I can now use it to sound off about things that concern me.

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Where is Our Madame Defarge?

Col Pot said a while back that people didn't read the detail of what politicians promised at election time. Perhaps he was simply reflecting his own approach to (ignoring) reality.

More than likely, then, that he will not 'read the detail' of the letters that even the We(s)t Australian couldn't avoid printing today in response to his moaning about grumpy (aka ungrateful) people in yesterday's paper.

If there is a 'guillotine for an emperor', let's seek out our own Madame Defarge, who famously knitted during public executions in Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities'.

It seems that the knitting represented the fact that they were not women of leisure like the upper classes being executed. They needed to spend all available times knitting garments for their families. Perhaps there is a message here, also, for the elitist Abbott government in Canberra.

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